I watch a movie trailer in my palm; then glance at the two screens on my desk displaying 27 open tabs across three different browsers. Beside me, my Kindle lays open, taunting me to keep reading.

In Kevin Kelly’s book Inevitable, he refers to this as ‘screening.’ Screens will be everywhere. They will influence us, help and inspire us, assist us and arouse conflict in us.

This may terrify you. It terrifies a lot of people.

The thought of dealing with day-to-day tasks through some form of computer screen. For the tech-phobic, those late-adopters, the anxiety must be crippling.

But we’re already here. We pay for gas on a screen at the pump, we do our banking on our phones, order food from our tablets, and we pay for groceries at automated check-outs. Zoom meetings, FaceTime, digital magazines, entertainment, online shopping…

Even billboards are digital these days.

And it’s only the tip of the iceberg. Soon nearly every interaction we have will happen via some sort of screen. At the very least, screens will be involved.

While Google glasses were a flop, but only because they were too early. Within five years augmented-reality glasses will be as common as wireless earbuds.

The next innovation makes last year’s feel like old news. Even the late adopters will be on board. They can’t not be.

Soon, as Kelly suggests, we’ll be reading the morning news on a screen built into our breakfast table.

Screens are everywhere. And they aren’t going away. They will be involved in nearly every interaction we have in our daily lives.

The question to ourselves is, will we be the users or the used?