Episode 105 - A look back at the Tech-of-it-all in 2024

This week on the Solid State Podcast, we start our seemingly-annual tradition of turning our eyes forward by… looking behind us. Yep, as 2024 approaches its final days, we feel the single best way to ground our predictions for 2025 (and beyond) is to take an honest look back at the wins and losses, bangs and busts, and frankly some outright snoozers that still managed to dominate both the headlines and this very podcast through the year…

It’s safe to say that “newsworthy” and “good” are not always synonyms… to be honest it sometimes seems like they rarely are. Was it a year of AI, for example? You bet, there’s just no deny thing that. Was it the year that AI became “good” or even meaningful in our daily life? No freakin way. 

And that’s just one example, it’s not a new phenomenon. For every iPod there’s a Zune, and hopefully there will be a day ahead where we look even further back, for example, at a chunk of red plastic that promised to change our lives by using the internet for us for… reasons… and say “you know what, that really was where it all began...”

But that’s ahead of us, pages of the story still to be written and that, well, is for a very different episode! Today, again, we’re going to take a stroll in reverse and see if we can figure out what central theme this “year in tech” might have had, and then see what direction it points us down the road…