There's a lot we don't know about what's to come for technology in 2025. AI can save the world, or ruin it, or do nothing interesting at all. A new US president could change priorities and policies on antitrust battles and privacy rules. Will TikTok be banned? Will Fedeviverse move forward? Will this be the year of substance? Desire grand theft auto vi Change society forever? will be next Mission: Impossible Will the movie be amazing? Look, I didn't say the stakes were always very high. But there are many questions.
But This episode of The VergecastWe try and offer some answers – without any evidence. Nilaya, David, and wall street journal Columnist (and forever friend) The Verge, joanna stern Take turns offering your predictions for the coming year.
We start out in 2025 with our lightest, most milquetoast, before reaching our biggest, hottest, spiciest ideas. And because we need to be held accountable for our actions, we make it a game.
Here's how the game works: Each host offers a prediction, and the other two get a chance to agree or reject the prediction. At the end of the year, whoever is correct about that prediction gets one point. If you are wrong, you lose one point. Next week we'll have even more predictions, and even more points available. A year from now, we'll review who was right most of the time, and we'll give the winner the coolest gadget to buy of 2025, whatever that may be. (We'll also need your help deciding, but we'll come back to that.)
Don't read below unless you've listened to or watched the episode, but for the sake of the tape, here are our predictions and results:
What are your predictions for 2025? What do you think we did right and what wrong? Who is going to win the game? Tell us what you think! And keep an eye out for all the best gadgets in 2025, because we have a winner to buy. Ultimately.