Invisible Conversations, Visible Consequences
By 2030, A2A correspondence is routine. Your bump is not just a gatekeeper; it is your delegate. It schedules, reschedules, negotiates, and confirms—often without you knowing the details. The result is uncanny smoothness: calendars sync, deliveries arrive, meetings resolve themselves. But while the mechanics are invisible, the consequences are deeply social.
Trusting the Delegate
The first question everyone asks: how much do you trust your AI?
- In the early days, people demanded notifications and confirmations for every move.
- By mid-2030, most allow their AI to act quietly. The more it proves reliable, the more invisible it becomes.
That trust is a cultural turning point. To let your AI carry on whole conversations with other AIs, you must believe that it represents you faithfully—knowing your preferences, boundaries, and intentions without constant oversight.
Future Lexicon: 2027–2030
The Bump (2027 → billions)
Camera bump becomes the AI’s body; front screen for you, bump for your AI.
The Puck (2027 → millions)
Optional round, pocketable embodied AI; complements the bump, not replaces it.
Gatekeeping (2028)
AI autonomously manages inbound communications—calls, texts, email, DMs—end-to-end.
Pattern (2029)
Dynamic, on-device models of your rhythms and habits replace static “profiles.”
A2A (2030)
AI-to-AI correspondence using compressed, non-human-readable exchanges that bypass phone/text/email.
Etiquette in an A2A World
This shift raises new etiquette challenges:
- Silent Conflicts. If two AIs negotiate and disagree—yours wants Friday, mine wants Thursday—who escalates, and how?
- Delegated Courtesy. In human-to-human correspondence, we exchange polite phrases. In A2A, compressed code replaces them. Are we losing rituals of courtesy, or are they simply abstracted away?
- Visibility. Should you know when your AI has “spoken” to mine? Some argue for transparency logs; others say the whole point is to stop bothering us.
The Business Dimension
For small businesses, A2A is both liberating and disorienting. A salon may see its bookings fill effortlessly as customer AIs negotiate directly. But who does the business owner thank for the appointment? Who gets credit for loyalty? Is it the human customer—or the customer’s AI that handled the relationship?
This shifts marketing, customer service, and branding away from human persuasion toward algorithmic compatibility. A good experience now depends on whether your AI “likes” the business’s AI.
The Human Question
Perhaps the deepest implication is existential. If most of your coordination, scheduling, and even small negotiations are handled by AIs, what does that leave for human interaction? Some celebrate it: more time for creativity, play, and depth. Others worry: fewer chances for serendipity, fewer micro-interactions that knit social fabric.
The New Social Contract
By 2030, societies are experimenting with norms and regulations for A2A:
- Consent protocols for when an AI can act without telling its human.
- Audit trails that can be inspected if disputes arise.
- Etiquette standards so that A2A correspondence doesn’t erode trust between humans.
What began as gatekeeping is now a new form of social infrastructure. We are still learning what it means to live in a world where most of your conversations never reach your ears, yet they shape your days.