Jono Bacon, Jeremy Garcia, and Stuart Langridge present Bad Voltage, in which we look to the year ahead (well, the 10 months ahead) and predict what will happen in the tech industry and the world in 2024. 2024’s predictions: [00:00:00] Intro [00:02:49] Jeremy: Sundar Pichai will not be CEO by end of 2024 [00:06:55] Jeremy: At least one major streaming service will be shut down, or acquired [00:11:30] Jeremy: Elon Musk Sells X, or X goes public [00:13:42] Jeremy: Bonus [00:17:29] Stuart: Film studio to release movie with AI-revived deceased actor [00:21:08] Stuart: Fusion reactor generates surplus power for practical use, ready for widespread deployment [00:23:05] Stuart: A nuclear weapon is detonated [00:26:23] Stuart: Bonus [00:30:45] Jono: Tesla to release budget EV ~$30k [00:35:22] Jono: Google Gemini will get shut down and replaced [00:39:53] Jono: VR photorealistic avatars [00:46:35] Jono: Bonus [00:47:41] Gemini predictions [00:49:23] Outro We’re on Mastodon! @[email protected]! Come chat with us and the community in our Slack channel via https://join.slack.com/t/badvoltage/shared_invite/zt-1porzolgy-eNrK6wREoVIINTbLi_kbsg! https://community.badvoltage.org/t/3×54-the-joe-dolce-music-theatre/12476 News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero, used with attribution. Thank you to Marius Quabeck and NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers!