Keiichi Matsuda, AI Visionary: The End of Smartphones, Apps & Interfaces
Tue Feb 03 2026
“What comes after the smartphone? After screens, apps, and interfaces that already feel like yesterday’s paper?” This question has driven Keiichi Matsuda for years – and it sits at the very heart of this episode of THE WORLD BEYOND.
Matsuda is widely regarded as one of the most influential visionaries of our time when it comes to the future of technology, space, and the human experience. Trained as an architect, former Creative Director for Microsoft Mixed Reality, Vice President of Design at Leap Motion, and founder of the studio Liquid City, he doesn’t see technology as a device – but as a living part of our environment. His work, including the cult film Hyper-Reality, doesn’t depict distant science fiction, but possible realities of tomorrow.
In conversation with podcast host Michael Mack, live-streamed and produced from the Bella Vista Suite at the Colosseo Hotel in Europa-Park on the occasion of the AUREA Awards, the discussion explores nothing less than the next evolutionary step of digital interaction: a world beyond apps, menus, and touchscreens. A world where we no longer operate machines – but interact with intelligent agents. Personal. Spatial. Emotional.
Keiichi Matsuda explains why he believes the future will not be defined by more screens, but by digital beings that accompany us, understand us, and support us. Why generative AI has fundamentally reshaped his view of augmented reality. And why he is convinced that creativity – not Big Tech – will determine how human this new world becomes.
A conversation about XR, AI, agents, and robots – but above all about storytelling, responsibility, and the question of how we choose to live with technology. Not dystopian. Not naive. But intentional.
THE WORLD BEYOND – Michael Mack and the Emotioneers of Tomorrow.
A MACK One Original Podcast.
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“What comes after the smartphone? After screens, apps, and interfaces that already feel like yesterday’s paper?” This question has driven Keiichi Matsuda for years – and it sits at the very heart of this episode of THE WORLD BEYOND. Matsuda is widely regarded as one of the most influential visionaries of our time when it comes to the future of technology, space, and the human experience. Trained as an architect, former Creative Director for Microsoft Mixed Reality, Vice President of Design at Leap Motion, and founder of the studio Liquid City, he doesn’t see technology as a device – but as a living part of our environment. His work, including the cult film Hyper-Reality, doesn’t depict distant science fiction, but possible realities of tomorrow. In conversation with podcast host Michael Mack, live-streamed and produced from the Bella Vista Suite at the Colosseo Hotel in Europa-Park on the occasion of the AUREA Awards, the discussion explores nothing less than the next evolutionary step of digital interaction: a world beyond apps, menus, and touchscreens. A world where we no longer operate machines – but interact with intelligent agents. Personal. Spatial. Emotional. Keiichi Matsuda explains why he believes the future will not be defined by more screens, but by digital beings that accompany us, understand us, and support us. Why generative AI has fundamentally reshaped his view of augmented reality. And why he is convinced that creativity – not Big Tech – will determine how human this new world becomes. A conversation about XR, AI, agents, and robots – but above all about storytelling, responsibility, and the question of how we choose to live with technology. Not dystopian. Not naive. But intentional. THE WORLD BEYOND – Michael Mack and the Emotioneers of Tomorrow. A MACK One Original Podcast.