Out With the Old, In With the New
Just when you thought you’d seen the last of those Best Of/Worst Of lists, the good news is – you have. We’re not going there, since you know how it goes: the more things change, the more they – just seem to get changed up a bit. At least in tech. We felt it might be interesting – and informative – to look at tech and trends gone by, and what they’ve given way to, which may well continue to be part of in this new year. Without further ado, here’s our list of out with the old and in with the new:
OLD NEW
1. Standing Desk Chair Chairwear: A wearable exoskeleton chair
2. UAPs/UFOs Drones
3. Dating apps AI-generated love interest
4. Fentanyl Kava
6. Depends $75 Leather Mosh Pit Diapers
7. Man cave Boy Apartment
9. Self-driving taxi Airtaxi
10. C-Suite G-Suite: tech formally enters the administration
11. DEI H1B
12. Online shopping AI Shopping Agents
13. GenX – the Latchkey Generation GenZ – the Lockdown Generation
14. Identity politics Digital IDs
15. Breast implants Neural implants
And a bonus! In his 1961 Farewell Address as he exited the Presidency, Dwight D Eisenhower warned the nation about the military-industrial complex: “We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”
Speaking of the old and the new, this might come as news to you. He also warned us about the dangers of the tech-industrial complex: “We must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
Just a heads’ up as we boldly go into this new year, always and forever, onward and forward.