Tech Predictions for 2025 Highlight AI, Social Media Shifts, and Mixed Reality Challenges

Experts foresee incremental AI advancements, evolving social media dynamics, and hurdles for emerging technologies like mixed reality and brain-computer interfaces.

• Generative AI tools are expected to see incremental improvements in usability and integration, but no major breakthroughs in 2025.
• Social media platforms like Threads and Bluesky are predicted to remain in competition, with Bluesky's innovative features driving user engagement despite its smaller scale.
• Mixed reality devices, including Apple's anticipated lighter headset, are projected to struggle with adoption due to limited utility and developer interest.
• Brain-computer interface technologies, led by Neuralink and others, are anticipated to gain more public attention through expanded trials and use cases like vision restoration.
• The TikTok ban, while facing legal and political challenges, could see developments with a potential Supreme Court ruling and maneuvering by the incoming Trump administration.

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