2025 In Tech: Who’s In And Who’s Out

Hello! I’m coming from nan future. And I personification immoderate news. 12 months from now, each nan Big Tech CEOs are still successful their jobs, everybody’s utilizing folding phones, Apple made a TV, and Nvidia is nan astir valuable institution successful nan history of nan universe. Wild year, huh? Or perchance not? It’s difficult to remember. Time recreation messes pinch your practice a little.

On this conception of The Vergecast, nan 2nd installment of our two-part 2025 preview, we connection immoderate earnestly iffy storylines from nan extremity of 2025. David, our resident clip traveler, brings america immoderate ample stories that either did aliases didn’t hap successful nan twelvemonth to come, and Nilay Patel and Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern personification to thief fig retired what’s existent and what isn’t.

Will personification really bargain Snap? Is GTA VI going to beryllium nan biggest crippled ever? Will Bluesky proceed to ascend and clip disconnected Threads successful its wake? Nobody knows yet, not moreover nan clip traveler, but we personification immoderate thoughts and ideas.

As was nan suit pinch past week’s episode, we’re keeping score. Here’s really it works: each large has to decide, for each 2025 news story, whether it’ll beryllium existent aliases not by nan extremity of nan year. Every correct conjecture earns you a point; each incorrect conjecture costs you one. At nan extremity of nan year, we’ll afloat nan scores, harvester them pinch past week’s guesses, and bargain nan victor nan coolest gadget of 2025, immoderate that turns retired to be. (We’re going to petition your thief deciding, too, but we’ll recreation backmost to that.)

Don’t publication nan beneath until you’ve listened to aliases watched nan episode, but for nan tape, coming are our predictions: