Against the current.
Toward the inevitable.

The history of computing has been a history of increasing proximity.

计算的发展史，本质上是一部智能不断靠近人的历史。大型机将计算带入机构，个人电脑将计算带上桌面，智能手机将计算带入手掌。下一代计算，将智能带入生活本身。

Intelligence will move across devices, environments and moments; understand context before requesting instruction; form interfaces only when needed; act locally when privacy matters and reach outward when greater intelligence is required.

智能将在设备、空间与时刻之间流动，在请求指令之前理解情境，只在需要时生成界面；在隐私重要时保持本地，在需要更高能力时连接更广阔的智能。

The post-app era will not be dominated by one universal device. Each form will exist closer to a particular intention, environment or human behavior—simpler on the surface, more capable beneath it.

后应用时代不会由一个万能设备统治。它将以一组专业化、智能化并彼此连接的形态出现。最重要的技术将越来越不可见，最有意义的物件将越来越个人化。

These are not isolated product announcements. They are evidence of a system-level transition. 这些不是彼此孤立的产品发布，而是一次系统级迁移正在发生的证据。

These are not predictions of individual products. Countercurrent studies the structural forces that may define the next computing cycle.

这些不是对具体产品的预测，而是关于整个系统前进方向的假设。

Between human intention and machine action; local privacy and distributed intelligence; autonomy and human authority; universal capability and individual expression.

人的意图与机器的行动；本地隐私与分布式智能；自主执行与人类权力；通用能力与个体表达。

Countercurrent exists to investigate this relationship before it becomes obvious.

Countercurrent 的存在，是为了在这一关系成为共识之前，先行研究它。