2024 In Review, 2025 Predictions — With Casey Newton

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Casey Newton is the author of Platformer and co-host of Hard Fork. He joins Big Technology Podcast for our annual predictions episode. Tune in to hear Newton analyze 2024's major developments in AI, debate whether AI agents will take off in 2025, and explore what might happen to companies like Apple, Google, and OpenAI in the coming year. We also cover quantum computing breakthroughs, self-driving car expansion, and what a potential Trump presidency could mean for tech antitrust. Hit play for an insightful look at where technology is headed in 2025. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnology Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Let's look back at 2024 and predict what's going to happen in 2025.
0:04.5	In our annual episode with Casey Newton of Platformer and the Hard Fork podcast,
0:09.3	that's coming up right after this.
0:11.3	Will AI improve our lives or exterminate the species?
0:16.5	What would it take to abolish poverty?
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0:56.1	and walk away with practical advice you can implement today. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show
1:03.6	for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond. Well, it's January 1st,
1:08.6	so as we do every year, yes, we're doing this for the fourth
1:11.2	year running. We're going to look back at the previous year and predict what's going to happen
1:15.5	in this coming year in 2025. And joining us, as always, to do it is Casey Newton of Platformer
1:22.7	and Hard Fork. Casey, great to see you. Welcome to the show. Alex, let me be the first to wish you a
1:28.2	happy new year. Happy new year, man. Here we are. Wonderful to be here in 2025. I know. I mean,
1:33.9	we're recording this in 2024, but it is very cool. Don't tell them that. They don't need to
1:37.2	know that. But we're we're manifesting the future together right now. We're manifesting.
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