The trap that I've seen is that people treat disruptions binary. It's either the business has been

disrupted or it hasn't been disrupted. And what we've seen is that there are varying degrees of

disruption. So that was 2022. And it's fair to say it's not been a straightforward year.

Most notably, there's a war in Europe which has seen both enormous human suffering, catastrophic

economic impacts and growing threats of escalation. In turn, that's been at least a partial player in high inflation, seen in many

countries already, and a risk of sliding into recession in many parts of the world. It's been a

year of record-breaking extremes for the climate too, with hotter days, bigger and later storm

seasons, and severe flooding in many parts of the world. So you'd be forgiven

for thinking that 2022 has been, well, a bit shambolic. But this is technology untangled, and we

only look back at the past to show how it's shaping the future.

So, rather than look back with our heads and our hands at the year just gone,

we're here to look at the way global organisations have ridden out the challenges of 2022 and are looking ahead to 2023.

Thank you. You're listening to Technology Untangled, a show which looks at the rapid evolution of technology

and unravels the way it's changing our world. I'm

your host, Michael Bird.

2020 was in many ways the year the globalized world became a bit more divided.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine back in February saw the world's ninth largest economy have heavy

sanctions imposed against them from the EU, UK, USA and many others.

The result of this created stress and strain on the global energy market, which shifted

the balance of power in the world, and highlighted just how divided

our governments can be. That being said, global organisations are still, well, global,

even if the countries they are based in are not the best of friends at the moment. In some cases,

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