2025 Tech Year in Review: An Opinionated Guide to the Events that will have the Biggest Long-Term Impacts

Podcasts ascend in cultural influence Four-year cycles - whether elections, Olympics, or World Cup - have long been a revealing way to observe changes in technology. (Fun fact: four years represents a more than a tripling in tech capability, if you take Moore’s Law as a generality, i.e. log(4)/log(1.5) ~= 3.4 ). In this election cycle, podcasts were a hot topic, with some dubbing it “The Podcast…