Episode 106 - What's next for Tech in 2025...

The New Year, like so many things, seems to mean many different things to many different people… but its also not much of a stretch to say that some things are at least ubiquitous… if not universal…

Time to focus on your health? Oh do I have a thousand spam emails for you… Looking to finally make that big move in your career? Indeed’s marketing budget sure seems to hope so… Time to clean up the house and sell a bunch of the crap you don’t need and never use? Ebay will happily cut you a once-in-a-lifetime discount to do exactly that and even give you a fraction of the money back to… well… buy more crap you don’t need and will likely never use…

Some other things in tech especially, though, are just as predictable and hopefully at least a little more useful… CES starts in mere days, Samsung is loading the confetti cannons for yet another flagship unpacked event, and across the globe Product Managers are plastering whiteboards with their sure-fire bet on how their AI-driven product is going to totally work this time, revolutionize your life, and simultaneously empty your wallet…

While we may not love the spam, the scams, and the incessant promises of “It will definitely be better this year...”, it is all part of what makes this space so wild, crazy, and special. 

So as we have freshly bid adieux to 2024, it’s time now to fix our sights on what we think 2025 has in store for us… I mean, am I finally going to get my flying car? Let’s find out…