Comment by A4ET8a8uTh0

My predictions for 2023 ( lets see how badly they age; I so want to be wrong on some of those btw ):

- Crypto POW will be banned in US, but not across the globe introducing new hot underground market - RTO will be ultimately successful due to confluence of FED overshooting with rates and big employers colluding behind closed doors - WFH will become a carrot for more 'vocal'/useful employees - Giant consolidation across industries ( including Big Tech ) will continue unabated and any slaps ( MS + Activision will serve only as an olive branch for the hardcore 'break the tech' crowd' ) - Musk may end up being removed as CEO of Tesla and/or Twitter ( not because of popular demand, but because of shareholders ); SpaceX will likely still keep him - SBF ( Bankman ) will not go to jail, but will get a sweetheart deal for a publicly unknown reason despite public uproar - Copilot and similar technologies will be adopted by giant vendors pricing out coders from Singapore, India, Ukraine ( and other former soviet republics ). Amusingly, resulting code and output will be contractually guaranteed to be reviewed by internal customer team increasing workload beyond and further increasing a number of competent programmers - After Disney discovers the risks of AI generated art based on its IP, it will be severely handicapped for general population ( think, DVD optical drive where you can only change a region once ) - Disney's streaming service will become dominating streaming platform - Netflix will be bought by Microsoft in 2023 and will perish in 2025 ( if history is any indicator ) - Israel will attack Iran before redline of enriched uranium is crossed with a quiet permission from WH - Trump show ( including Biden's laptop arc, Jan 6th arc, and 24 run will continue to be broadcasted on dying medium that is cable ) - Free speech freedoms will be further eroded under an attempt to rewrite Section 230 ( unsurprisingly, carve outs will be made for current existing players ) - Splintering of the net will continue in an unexpected direction: 1) standard based 2) community gate-keeper based AND, naturally, along currently redeveloping geopolitical lines of influence - Ukraine war will escalate further to include NATO member either by provocation, an actual accident or choice of one of the powers - OFAC list will expand twofold as a result of the above