Six key technology trends for 2023
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.7 • 53 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
It's often said that technology moves quickly, but the decisions we make about it can have long-term consequences. That's why identifying these trends — and understanding what they mean — matters. At Thoughtworks we do that with our Looking Glass report. Our most recent edition was published at the end of 2022; it provides a useful framework for thinking through the major shifts that look set to happen across the industry in 2023.
In this episode of the Technology Podcast, regular hosts Mike Mason and Ken Mugrage take the guest seats to talk to Neal Ford about the six key trends in the latest Looking Glass. They explain why they were chosen before diving deeper into a selection of some of the most hotly debated trends that feature in the report, such as metaverse and Web3.
- Explore the latest Looking Glass: https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/looking-glass
- Read Mike Mason's metaverse article (co-written with Barton Friedland) https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/articles/metaverse-practical-review
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast. |
| 0:12.3 | I am one of your regular hosts, Neil Ford, and you're going to hear a lot of familiar |
| 0:15.9 | voices today because we're swapping hats and two of your regular hosts are sitting in the much more comfortable cushier guest chairs today in our luxurious podcast studio. |
| 0:29.3 | And they're going to be here talking about this document called Looking Glass. |
| 0:33.1 | I'm joined today by Ken and Mike. |
| 0:35.4 | Hi, Ken and Mike. |
| 0:36.8 | Hello. |
| 0:38.8 | Hello. They. Hello. |
| 0:50.5 | They are a regular host, but today, one of their many hats within ThoughtWorks is they are members of Octo, which is the office of the chief technology officer. |
| 1:00.9 | And one of the things that Octo is tasked to do as advisory to Rebecca, our CTO, is try to imperfectly look into the future as much as possible to help us make decisions about technology. |
| 1:07.1 | Where should we be going and where should be putting our effort, et cetera. And that is an internal |
| 1:15.7 | document, publication, I guess we could call it called Looking Glass, but in the grand |
| 1:23.6 | tradition of ThoughtWorks, things that are valuable. We like to make public because we believe a |
| 1:28.7 | rising tide raises all ships. And so we started publishing Looking Glass to give you some insight |
| 1:34.2 | into our decision process. And that's what we're going to be talking about today with Ken and Mike |
| 1:39.2 | is the most recent edition of Looking Glass and this idea of lenses. There are six lenses in our looking |
| 1:46.5 | glass. Each of those is a perspective on technology in the near term future. So we're going to |
| 1:53.4 | talk about the six that exist on our looking glass. And then we're going to do a little bit of a |
| 1:58.4 | deeper dive into a few of them. So let's talk about the lenses that show up on this most recent edition of Looking Glass. |
| 2:06.5 | If you want to read the actual document is in the resources link for our podcast. |
| 2:11.3 | So let's talk about the first one here, platforms as products. |
| 2:15.6 | Sure. |
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