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It is time for me to pay the piper.

By that I mean it's time, that's special time,

where I look back in an episode I recorded at the end of last year in 2023,

in which I made predictions for what would happen in the world of tech this year in 2024.

Traditionally, pretty shaky on these predictions.

And it turns out making a really good prediction is hard.

I never want to do a layup or anything like that.

So sometimes I try and stick my neck out.

But on top of that, weird stuff just keeps happening in the world, you know, stuff I

didn't see coming. And inevitably, that has a really big impact on everything else. Like that

pandemic thing a few years back, I didn't see that coming. And that sure as heck had a big impact on,

well, everything, but including the tech sector. Also, sometimes I make predictions not based on what I think is going to happen,

but perhaps on what I hope will happen.

So first up, the first prediction I made last year is that X, formerly known as Twitter,

would finally get its act together. And Elon Musk would step back

from the service a little bit more. And Linda Yaccarino, who's the actual CEO of X, would have a chance

to define a new era at the company, because the perception at least is that anything she does as

leader is immediately undermined and reversed by

Elon Musk. But I would say that this prediction of mine was a big old swing and a miss.

Now, in my own prediction, I admitted that I did not believe X would actually get better. I said that

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