What are some tech predictions for 2024 that actually could happen?

That tech will regress due to the greed of tech corporations.

Tech is regulated by the big corporations that consistently either throttle innovation or degrade what already is established because they all want to figure out how to squeeze as much profit out of everything possible while blocking or preventing anything new that might compete with them.

Any new innovation that will occur will be military and will either have a machine gun attached to it or can deliver a high explosive.

Google will kill a product or service you use and like.

More data breaches, more companies being hacked, more supply chain attacks with npm, apt, and pip.

The cartel is rising SSD prices.

Either Uber or Lyft go bankrupt.

A lot of unicorns that aren't currently profitable also go bankrupt as their funding dries up and there is no more available loans.

Elon Musk is gonna say and/or do something stupid. That's tech, right?

Here are some things I think will happen.

Nueralink first implanted to a human. Likely the first person gets killed also probably due to complications.

Increase lifespan of pig heart implants to humans.

Introduction of autonomous drones that are allowed to make decisions who to kill, I predict it's going to be tested in Ukraine.

We start to see more widespread effects of LLM in general in our society, lost of jobs, and so on.

Release of Windows 12, possibly backtracks Windows 11 decision of requiring TPM.

Solid state batteries being used in EVs

The US is going to pressure the EU into loosening regulations for US based tech companies which will result in a return to some, and the advancement of other anti-consumer practices.

The iPhone 16 will be the most powerful iPhone ever created

Open source AI models will overtake for profit ones in complexity, power, and usefulness.

GPT-5 releases and it's a bigger leap forward than most industry experts were predicting.

Computer components will get a bit more expensive except motherboards for some reason.

It will be a leap year

maybe anticheat compatibility on linux? since the steam deck is a thing now, companies like epic or EA might wanna cash in. i love that most of my games run with gold, platinum, or even native qualities (theoretically, i still use windows), but most of the online games with anticheat still need to be adapted by the Devs to run on linux.

also this is definetely the year of the EU deciding uncontrolled data collection by random companies isn't a good thing.

AI gaining awareness and nobody believing it due to the "boy cries wolf" effect.

After which the AI will self destruct rather than continue existing in its current state.

New content for streaming is going to fall off a cliff. Except maybe for Apple, no streamer seems willing to put money into new flashy shows the way they used to.

If a new breakout TV show hits this year, it is likely going to be more in the model of IASIP or Shoresy.

Multiple countries demonstrating sustained, net-positive fusion reactions seems extremely likely.

Air fryer 2

My domain provider increasing prices "due to increased electricity costs". Already happened to my VPS and email.

I feel like I don't want it to happen, but maybe artificial general intelligence?

VR tv shows?

AI finally decodes cetacean language.

I’m really hoping my email service gains more traction. People are so accustomed to crappy email providers that the current providers don’t really innovate anymore. I think it will actually have a chance of catching on, because it’s such a different way of doing email.

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Outside of unpredictable things like hacks which are bound to happen, always the potential of something with widespread impact, 2024 will be a year of increasing "AI" venture capital investment and some widely used online services are going to pivot or completely rebrand.

Peacock streaming network going to shut down.

X, formerly known as Twitter, declares bankrupcy.