2023 In Review, 2024 Predictions — With Casey Newton

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Casey Newton is the editor of Platformer and co-host of Hard Fork. He joins Big Technology Podcast for our annual look back and forward at the year that was and the year to come. In this episode, we both go through our standout moment from 2023, then make predictions on Gemini, GPT-5, the future of Google Search, Apple’s Vision Pro, X vs. Threads, Falling in love with bots, autonomous driving, and plenty more. Tune in for a fun lively discussion to close out 2023. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Let's predict 2024 with platformers Casey Newton.
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0:36.1	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.
0:43.1	Well, it's the end of the year, and that means it's time to recap what happened this year and predict what's going to happen next for the third year running.
0:50.1	We're joined by Casey Newton. He's the editor of Platformer, the co-host of Hard Fork, and a wonderful repeat guest here this time of year.
1:00.7	So, Casey, great to have you back. Thanks for coming on.
1:03.0	Nice to be back. Alex. Thank you for having me.
1:06.1	Wasn't 2023 like the most interesting year covering this stuff? For me, definitely, it's been most interesting
1:13.3	one I can remember. Yeah, I think every year has its own kind of flavor. You know, last year's
1:19.4	flavor kind of feels like it was chaos. And I think of it mostly as the Elon Musk taking over
1:24.4	Twitter year. This was a year where we saw people start to build a lot of new things.
1:30.2	And I think for the first time in a long time in Silicon Valley, there was a sense that
1:33.8	something truly new and momentous was gaining momentum.
1:38.1	Exactly.
1:38.8	And it had, I feel like it had everything.
1:41.2	There were business stories.
1:42.3	There was like legal stories with the San Bakerman Fried story.
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