Amazon’s Alexa chief predicts an end to doom scrolling: the next generation is ‘going to just think differently’

Panos Panay, Amazon’s head of devices and services, believes the reign of the smartphone screen may be nearing a tipping point. Speaking at Fortune Brainstorm AI in San Francisco, he suggested that a growing fatigue with social media “doom scrolling” is paving the way for a new era of “ambient intelligence”—one driven by a generation that interacts with technology in fundamentally different ways,.

According to Panay, the future of consumer technology isn’t about better apps, but about...