Is It 2023 Yet?
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4.1 • 572 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Keeping on theme with the roaring ‘20s, this year has been a doozy. Social media sites are aflame, all that hype over the metaverse has fizzled, the cryptocurrency economy has all but collapsed, and you can't always tell if a piece of art was created by a person or an eerily human bot. The future is now, and there sure is a lot of it.
On this final Gadget Lab episode of the year, we discuss 2022’s biggest stories and guess at what wild tech frontiers might be awaiting us all in 2023.
Show Notes
Check out all WIRED’s coverage of art, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and the metaverse. Read more about Twitter and Elon Musk, if you must. Read Lauren’s story about how no one cares about her NFT. Here’s Steven Levy’s story about how big tech layoffs may fuel new industry upstarts.
Recommendations
Mike recommends finding a local foot race to run. Lauren recommends meditation, particularly guided meditations from Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, and 10% Happier podcast.
Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. The show is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.
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| 0:00.0 | Mike. |
| 0:00.6 | Lauren. |
| 0:01.2 | If you had to sum up all of the tech news of 2022, in one word, what would it be? |
| 0:06.8 | In one word? |
| 0:08.1 | I'll give you a phrase. |
| 0:09.6 | Elon Musk. |
| 0:11.8 | Oh. |
| 0:14.3 | Really? |
| 0:15.1 | It's not like, it's like a proper noun. |
| 0:18.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:18.9 | It's like an improper noun. |
| 0:20.3 | I mean, he looms large. Oh, yeah. What about you? |
| 0:24.6 | I went with a dictionary word. So I chose inauspicious. Inauspicious. Inauspicious. |
| 0:30.6 | That's dark. Look it up. It is dark. It is, but it's been a weird year. It has been a very |
| 0:36.3 | strange year. I mean, all years are |
| 0:38.0 | strange, but I think this year is kind of off the charts. We should talk about it. Let's do it. |
| 0:44.5 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to Gadget Lab. I'm Lauren Good. I'm a senior writer at Wired. |
| 0:53.5 | And I'm Michael Collori. I'm a senior editor at Wired. This is our last gadget lab. I'm Lauren Good. I'm a senior writer at Wired. And I'm Michael Colori. I'm a senior |
| 0:55.2 | editor at Wired. This is our last gadget lab episode of the year. Now in the past, we would usually |
| 1:02.0 | publish a rerun episode around this time of year. But we heard that you all actually really like |
| 1:07.9 | listening to Gadget Lab in December, Maybe because you're looking for a little |
| 1:11.4 | escape from the family or you're traveling and you need some pods for the long ride. So we're here |
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