Our job here at The Satellite is to highlight where design and tech trends intersect and to help navigate where they are headed next. Over the past year we published 44 newsletters covering a range of surprising breakthroughs, spectacular failures, and many, many industry buzzwords.
As the year draws to a close, it’s time to take a look back at everything that happened (and didn’t happen) along those intersections and to preview 2023 as we try and predict the road ahead for design and technology. Flying cars? It’s never going to happen. High quality video generated from just text? It is decidedly so.
The 10,000 Foot View
This year saw two of the most talked about technologies seemingly stuck in neutral, if not rolling backwards, due to their own failures to generate many meaningful breakthroughs. I’m talking about the much hyped (including by us) Web3 with all of its NFTs and crypto tokens, and the Metaverse… our future, but in 3D.
We’ll get into the successes across these spaces, because there actually were a few, as well as what went wrong and why 2021’s buzziest siblings couldn’t find mass adoption in 2022.
On the other hand, something no one seemed to be talking about in 2021 became the breakout technology of this year. I’m talking, of course, about generative AI. Today, it’s hard to imagine there was ever a time that every social feed and tech news publication wasn’t drowning in generative AI stories, but it’s only been a topic of conversation for the past few months.
So, what went wrong and what went right this year? Let’s take a closer look.
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