India, March 1 -- Alec Ross discussed AI's impact, data-driven economy, and future technological transformations at NXT 2025.

New Delhi: At the NXT Forum 2025, held at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, futurist Alec Ross spoke on artificial intelligence, offering insights from his perspective as an American.

He stated, "I am going to discuss artificial intelligence and break down some of what is happening, at least from my perspective. I want to provide a few data points to frame this data-driven economy, looking back just ten years."

Ross highlighted the rapid growth of networked devices over the past decade. He explained that in 2015, there were 15 billion such devices worldwide, including smartphones and laptops, but more significantly,...