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🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

You'd be forgiven if the New Year's resolutions you made at the beginning of 2020 haven't exactly panned out. It's been a ridiculous, infuriating year that people can barely make sense of now, let alone have predicted back then. Still, 'tis the season for reflection, and in that spirit we're going to try to make sense of our tumultuous era.

This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED senior associate editor Julian Chokkattu joins us for a less-than-sober conversation about the tech that took the spotlight this year and what might come next.

Recommendations:

All drinks this week. Julian recommends whiskey sour with egg whites. Lauren recommends wine from Quady North in southern Oregon, and Two Shepherds in Sonoma County, California. Mike recommends a paloma cocktail with Jarritos grapefruit soda or Ficks mix.

Julian Chokkattu can be found on Twitter @JulianChokkattu. 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.
0:01.0	Lauren.
0:02.0	Mike, what was your New Year's resolution last year?
0:06.1	And is it at all applicable now?
0:09.0	My New Year's resolution last year was to spend as much time as possible in my apartment.
0:14.7	Congratulations.
0:18.3	We are one of like the 1% of the population that keeps their New Year's resolution.
0:23.3	And that might even be generous.
0:25.7	Do you think we should even make resolutions this year or predictions for that matter?
0:30.8	I think predictions are in order.
0:32.6	All right. Let's give it a try.
0:41.1	Hey, a try. Hey everyone, it's time for Gadget Lab.
0:43.3	It's the last one of the year.
0:45.9	I'm Lauren Good.
0:46.7	I'm a senior writer at Wired, and I'm joined remotely by my co-host, Wired Senior Editor,
0:51.4	Michael Kulori.
0:52.4	Hey, Snack Fight.
0:53.4	Aloha.
0:55.8	And we're also joined by Wired Senior Associate Editor and basically our unofficial third co-host, Julian Chukatu. Julian joins us from a very
1:02.3	snowy New York City. It's too bad the snow has kept you from going to bars and indoor restaurants,
1:08.3	huh, Julian? Hey, no, actually, I love snow.
1:11.5	I will shovel anyone's yard driveway, so just give me a holler and I'll come over.
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