Think about the glowing pane of light that cradles your gaze in the darkness of the night. We call it a window, a gateway to the limitless expanse of the digital universe. But does it really liberate us? Or does it limit our experience, creating a luminous prison that constrains more than it opens?

Throughout the evolution of user interfaces, we've been tethered to the visual. From the humble, text-based terminals of the past, we've moved on to the graphical interfaces that tickle our senses with a riot of icons and windows. Yet, in this parade of visuals, we may have traded the essence of interaction for a simple feast for the eyes.

We stand on the precipice of an epochal question: Are screens and visual interfaces truly our future? Or are they invisible chains, hindering our ability to tap into the true potential of our interaction with the digital cosmos? I am convinced that we're on the brink of a monumental shift, a transition towards non-visual user interfaces that could break our tether to the screen.

Such non-visual user interfaces are already here, lurking in the shadows, whispering from our living room corners, vibrating subtly on our wrists, narrating to us on our daily commute. However, they've been treated as garnish rather than the main course. It's time we started to rethink this story.

Imagine if our modern marvels - artificial intelligence, virtual reality, the Internet of Things - could shed their screen-based facades, embracing non-visual user interfaces instead. Unchained from the screen, they could weave themselves more deeply into the fabric of our lives, reshaping our digital interactions.

Cedric May