{"id":18433,"date":"2023-01-17T14:41:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T14:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/productcollective.com\/?p=18433"},"modified":"2023-01-23T19:35:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T19:35:16","slug":"looking-back-at-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/productcollective.com\/looking-back-at-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back at 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the time of year where people tend to make their predictions for what\u2019s to come in 2023. And this year \u2013 a lot of the pundits are predicting a lot of doom and gloom. Talks of continued layoffs\u2026 a looming recession\u2026 it\u2019s a good thing that today is Friday as I write this, otherwise, my mood may be ruined for the day just thinking about everything.<\/p>\n<p>But what do pundits really know, anyway?<\/p>\n<p>I thought it\u2019d be interesting to look back at some of the 2022 predictions that were made in the world of tech to see if what people foresaw actually came true. In my research, I found that many predictions actually did come true \u2013 but some, alas, did not. Here are a few to note:<\/p>\n<p>There were lots of predictions made, but I picked one to look back on and sort of \u201cfact check\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/servicenow\/2022\/01\/05\/2022-predictions-inflection-points-in-work-technology-and-esg\/?sh=4133947f4c68\"><strong>From Dave Wright, Contributor at Forbes:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>AI and Humans Will Collaborate More\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/emojipedia.org\/thumbs-up\/\">\ud83d\udc4d<\/a><br \/>\nWe certainly saw AI continue to explode in 2022 \u2013 particularly towards the end of the year, as OpenAI released ChatGPT into the wild.<\/p>\n<p><em>Employees will demand \u2013 and deserve \u2013 more\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/emojipedia.org\/thumbs-down\/\">\ud83d\udc4e<\/a><br \/>\nEmployees probably do deserve more, but we\u2019ve started to see things swing back in the favor of employers. From Elon Musk asking his staff to \u201cgo hardcore\u201d to CEO\u2019s pushing people to get back to the office, it seems like demands from employees may be starting to fall on deaf ears<\/p>\n<p><em>We\u2019ll be acutely aware of our physical world\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/emojipedia.org\/thumbs-up\/\">\ud83d\udc4d<\/a><br \/>\nWhile some of the talk in the tech world for a while involved Metaverses\u2026 the reality is that we live in a physical world\u2026 and 2022 brought a lot of \u201cphysical world\u201d issues, including logistical, macroeconomic, geopolitical\u2026 and, well, you name it.<\/p>\n<p>Dave\u2019s predictions were hit and miss, overall \u2013 which seems to be the case for most pundits. Nobody really\u00a0<em>knows<\/em>\u00a0what\u2019s ahead. But hey, it\u2019s an interesting thought exercise to think about what\u2019s to come and how it may affect us all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the time of year where people tend to make their predictions for what\u2019s to come in 2023. And this year \u2013 a lot of the pundits are predicting a lot of doom and gloom. 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