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No. sounds. There's probably another podcast on there that you're absolutely love. Hello, this is TechTent. I'm Joe Tidy. And this week we're reading the digital

runes and gazing into our cyber crystal balls to look at the tech stories that might shape

2022. With me as Jane Wakefield, Jane, how would you sum up this last year in technology news?

Well, it's always a bit of a roller coaster, isn't it, Joe?

We've learned some new words this year, NFT, Metaverse.

Yes.

We've discovered that chips aren't infinite, that they run out, which is come as a bit of a shock to some people.

We've seen plans to regulate big tech, but not a lot actually happening.

There's always some interesting things that are thrown up,

and we're going to hear about some of them today.

Yeah, and we've certainly had a good time reporting on a lot of those things, haven't we?

Well, today we're getting the predictions for what's going to be big in the world of tech in the coming year. We've asked our BBC colleagues for their educated guesses about everything from Web 3.0 and

crypto to the tech clash in China and, of course, the future of the remaining founders of Silicon

Valley tech giants. So let's jump straight into it with our first two predictions then from BBC tech reporter

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