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Tech predictions for 2023

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, Technology, News

4.3227 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Shiona McCallum and Joe Tidy invite the BBC's tech experts in Africa, Asia, America and Europe to make their predictions for how tech will shape 2023. From gaming to chip wars, and VR to AI they tell you what to look out for in the year ahead, wherever in the world you are.

Transcript

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0:00.0

On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see.

0:04.7

Hello, I'm Brian Cox.

0:05.6

And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:08.3

In this series, we're going to have a planet off.

0:10.8

I feel like Jupiter wins.

0:12.8

And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit.

0:15.9

We're talking about your bog standard.

0:17.8

Ice, not the fancy one.

0:20.1

Science with funny bits.

0:21.9

The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:24.1

Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

0:31.0

You're listening to a special edition of TechTent on the BBC World Service with me, Shona McCallum,

0:38.8

where we're looking forward to what's to come in 2023. With me is my colleague Joe Tidy. Joe, you came onto the show last year

0:46.8

and made a prediction. What was it and were you right? Well, no, I'm going to be honest. So I predicted very kind of glass

0:57.9

half full that we would see the end of ransomware at scale. So these are the big cyber attacks

1:02.6

that, you know, cause massive problems in organisations and lock up systems and data.

1:07.6

And although we haven't seen the big sort of scale attacks we saw in 2021 against the US,

1:12.8

we have seen lots of attacks. They just haven't been in the US anymore. So all the criminals

1:16.5

have moved their attention to Latin America and other places. But I was listening to last year's

1:21.3

show. And interestingly, there are a few things that we kind of got right, but we're just a little

1:25.7

bit early on. So we said that 2022 would be the year of Web 3. That hasn't really happened, but it looks like it could

1:31.9

emerge again next year. And also, Shona, you predicted that Apple's AR glasses would arrive. Again,

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