The 15-Year Flywheel in Consumer Tech - Every 15 years, there have been significant shifts in consumer tech form factors [4] - The evolution includes punch cards, terminal commands (Unix shell), graphical user interfaces (Apple Macintosh), web native interfaces (browsers), and mobile native interfaces (smartphones) [4][5][6][7][9][11] - In 2025, the industry anticipates the emergence of living, breathing assistant interfaces [28] The Preference Principle - The core principle driving these shifts is that a higher number of revealed personal preferences leads to better collective outcomes [13] - More revealed preferences improve information quality and enable corrective wisdom of the crowd [14][15] - This principle applies to welfare distribution, auctions, hiring decisions, and trial by jury [16][17][18][19] Future of Consumer Tech - The industry predicts that interfaces will evolve into living, breathing assistants that proactively solicit personal preferences in natural language [28][29] - The success of future consumer products will depend on the ability to capitalize on the trust inherent in natural language to gather personal preferences [29][30] - The goal is to create data escrows of individual preferences to drive stable matches and amazing outcomes [30]