The Distant Future: 2025 Expectations versus Reality

Is AGI right around the corner, again? How's the AI bubble doing? What happened to climate activism? We're closing out the year with a round up of the many predictions made about technology by 2025 and share some of our own guesses.

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Further Reading

• Émile's rundown of 2025 predictions: https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/what-people-thought-would-happen
• NYT on the AI bubble: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/business/the-ai-boom-economy.html
• Book mentioned: The Discovery of the Future - H.G. Wells