2022 In Review, 2023 Predictions — With Casey Newton

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Casey Newton is the editor of Platformer and co-host of Hard Fork. He joins Big Technology Podcast to keep up an annual tradition of looking back on the year that was, and looking ahead to the year that will be. In this episode, we review the wild developments at Twitter, the decline of Web3, and Amazon and Meta's progress in 2022. Then, we predict what will take place with ChatGPT, state bans on content moderation, Substack's ad business, and Apple's App Store. Tune in for one of our most fun shows of the year. If you like Big Technology Podcast, please rate it five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. (Big thank you to all who rated in the past few weeks!!). For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/

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0:00.0	Will AI improve our lives or exterminate the species?
0:05.0	What would it take to abolish poverty?
0:08.0	Are you eating enough fermented foods?
0:10.0	These are some of the questions we've tackled recently on the next big idea.
0:14.0	I'm Rufus Griscombe, and every week I sit down with the world's leading thinkers
0:19.0	for in-depth conversations that will help you live, work, and play smarter.
0:23.6	Follow the next big idea wherever you get your podcasts.
0:27.6	LinkedIn Presents. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation, of the tech world and beyond.
0:51.8	Kaysen Newton is our guest today.
0:53.2	He is the editor of Platformer and the co-host of Hard Fork,
0:56.4	and he has been on an absolute role this past year with a series of high-profile Twitter scoops,
1:01.2	and he's added about 50,000 people to his newsletter.
1:04.5	Every year, or at least in the past two years running,
1:07.1	Casey and I get together.
1:08.5	We take a look back at the year that was and then make some predictions for the year ahead.
1:12.8	I think it's a great exercise.
1:14.0	It's a way to really take stock, put a stake in the ground and say, where are we moving and where have we moved from?
1:20.6	And it's one of my favorite podcasts of the year because it's absolutely a blast to look back and forward with Casey.
1:27.0	And what a year it's been. We have so much
1:29.2	to talk about. And so much of the news over the past year has really come out of the blue. Everything
1:33.3	from generative AI to the decline of crypto, things like FTX. We're talking about that last year.
1:39.7	And of course, the real demise of Web3 has been pretty wild to watch. There's Elon and Twitter. How can we
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