- significant rise in inflation - Democrats lose the midterms - Apple releases AR/VR goggles - Crypto hasn’t imploded yet - Starship suborbital launch - Fi

- significant rise in inflation - Democrats lose the midterms - Apple releases AR/VR goggles - Crypto hasn’t imploded yet - Starship suborbital launch - First AI generated novel makes best seller list. Arguments about how ‘directed’ it was - Covid is endemic, restrictions generally eased, covid boosters are treated like flu shots - We get a new JS front-end framework that takes the hype from svelte - Hottest year on record, wildfires everywhere, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, dogs and cats living together. Despite lots of rhetoric, atmospheric co2 ppm still going up - Many articles about how hybrid working doesn’t work. Many organisations give up on their ‘go back to the office’ plans and embrace ‘fully remote’. Lots of disruption in this space. - Major domestic terror attack organised on Telegram and Signal - Donald Trump does not go to jail - Interactive Porn AI startups start doing very well - Drones used in more conflicts, reaction is muted - Reddit hobbles their API