"2018 is a year the tech industry wishes it could forget. But 2018’s problems aren’t going anywhere.
It was the year we came to grips with how little we can trust Facebook and how much we’re addicted to our screens. It was the year that online hate and misinformation became an unavoidable reality and Google, Microsoft and Amazon faced revolts from their own employees over ethical lapses. It was the year Apple became the first trillion-dollar company — and then lost a quarter of that when we yawned at its new iPhones.
Even YouTube’s “Rewind 2018” video is already the most-disliked video in history.
When
my Post colleagues and I looked into a crystal ball to make this list
of nine intentionally provocative headlines we might see in 2019, it was
hard to see past the problems we’re bringing with us into the new year.
New
technologies like 5G networks, alternative transportation and
artificial intelligence promise to change our lives. But even these
carry lots of caveats in the near term.
I’m
still optimistic technology can make our world better. So here’s a glass
half-full of hope for the new year: 2019 is tech’s chance to make it
right."
