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Tech Life, predicting what might happen

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in the world of tech in

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2024. If you thought last

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year had incredible technology news, what can

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we expect in the months to come?

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Joining me in the studio is my

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Tech Life colleague Alistair Keen, hello. Hello

0:51

and Happy New Year to you Shona as well.

0:53

Happy New Year to you. And I am quite

0:55

excited to hear the predictions from our colleagues all

0:57

around the globe about what this year might have

1:00

in store. Here's a little flavour of what's coming

1:02

up. The

1:06

ever optimistic crypto fans online are pumped.

1:09

Then again they always are. Give me

1:11

an A. A. Give

1:13

me an I. I. What have

1:15

you got? AI. Correct, yes. E3

1:18

has been cancelled forever and with it, one of my life ambitions has been

1:20

dashed. I did also briefly walk with

1:22

dinosaurs. Okay

1:27

I'm intrigued. Let's get going with our

1:29

first set of predictions for 2024. Yeah

1:32

we're going to hear from Zoe Kleinman.

1:34

Now Zoe is of course a good

1:37

friend of Tech Life. You can often

1:39

hear her presenting or reporting on the

1:41

programme. But Zoe is also the BBC's

1:43

technology editor based here in the UK,

1:45

reflecting on the biggest and most important

1:48

tech stories on TV, radio and online.

1:50

So here are Zoe's predictions for the

1:52

year ahead. There'll be no

1:54

escape from artificial intelligence in

1:57

2024. We've seen some incredible

1:59

advances fictional

4:00

mum. I did also briefly

4:02

walk with dinosaurs, but the focus was

4:04

very much on many of the ordinary

4:07

things I already do on my phone

4:09

all the time. And I think that's

4:11

the point. I think the Apple Vision

4:13

Pro is designed to eventually become your

4:15

phone. It'll have to come down in cost

4:17

from its $3,500 launch price tag, and I expect over time

4:22

it'll become more like a pair of blasters

4:24

and less like a headset. But

4:26

let's face it, something will eventually

4:28

replace our beloved rectangular smartphones.

4:31

And it makes sense for that something to be

4:34

wearable. Perhaps I'll be talking to

4:36

you in mixed reality this time next year.

4:38

Hmm, well fascinating set of predictions from

4:41

the BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman there.

4:43

What did you think Alistair? More virtual

4:45

reality headsets going to be released? Do

4:47

you see you and people you know

4:50

wearing them more next year? Do you

4:52

fancy it? I think the big challenge

4:54

is getting them into the commercial space. So

4:56

you and I just using them in everyday

4:59

life. Industry is already using headsets for training,

5:01

but are you and I going to use

5:03

them for regular phone calls, for sending text

5:05

messages, especially if it costs as much as

5:08

they do at the moment. I'm not sure

5:10

we're there just yet. I

5:12

also don't want to wear something on my face all

5:14

the time. And that's the thing.

5:16

Do you want virtual reality, which is a

5:18

completely new world that you're in and you're

5:20

kind of detached from where you are? Or

5:22

do you want augmented reality where you still

5:24

got your surroundings, but you're adding to the

5:26

experience? Thanks Alistair. And straight

5:28

on to our second set of predictions

5:30

too from Joe Tidy, the BBC's cyber

5:33

correspondence. Now he's spent much of the

5:35

last year reporting on cryptocurrencies. These are

5:37

a type of digital currency. Perhaps the

5:39

best known one is Bitcoin. So

5:41

let's hear what Joe Tidy thinks we can expect this

5:43

year. The world of cryptocurrencies

5:46

is set for another rollercoaster ride in

5:48

2024 and as an impartial, but

5:51

also kind of obsessive observer, I

5:53

can't wait. The Last year

5:55

has seen the titans of the Crypto

5:58

world fall as influential billionaire seed. Those

6:00

and founders have had run in so

6:02

been jailed by police in the Us.

6:04

On. Paper it's all been bad news,

6:06

but that thin green line that

6:09

everyone what is so closely has

6:11

dipped in Britain and flattened and

6:13

risen and slowly but surely kept

6:15

climbing. The. Value of one Bitcoin

6:17

often seen as the barometer for the

6:19

health of the whole industry, has gone

6:21

from sixteen thousand dollars a coin this

6:23

time last year to more than forty

6:26

thousand. I'm intrigued to see

6:28

where it goes. And twenty twenty four,

6:30

the ever optimistic crypto fans on are

6:32

pumped. Then again they always all. But

6:35

this time there were two genuinely big

6:37

events that could send the price hi

6:39

Aussie collapse again. The. Bitcoin having

6:41

is expected in May and event to

6:43

do with the mining of crypto currency

6:46

that affects the supply of new coins

6:48

silver coins released potentially more people interested

6:50

in buying them on. Potential changes in

6:52

financial rules in the Us could mean

6:55

that big investors will be allowed to

6:57

pour money into the volatile asset to

6:59

their clients. The reason

7:01

I'm interested isn't just because some

7:03

bitcoin is might get rich. Bitcoin

7:06

and crypto currencies are monstrously influential

7:08

side of tech. When the height

7:10

builds, people always come up with

7:12

new, exciting and bones his ideas

7:14

for how to use the underlying

7:16

block chain system run the earnest.

7:18

he's. Also, entire countries

7:20

are affected by this. El Salvador was

7:22

the first country to make bitcoin legal

7:24

tender, followed by the Central African Republic.

7:27

El Salvador script so loving President

7:29

recently celebrated off the one hundred

7:31

million dollars worth of bitcoin he

7:34

purchased with money from his impoverished

7:36

countries coffers was worth more than

7:38

what he spent on it. It

7:40

since gone down quite a bit. More. Could

7:43

a bitcoin price rise or collapse

7:45

mean for him and his citizens?

7:47

As ever, the tentacles of crypto

7:49

currencies stretch into many aspects of

7:51

modern life. And. I'm intrigued.

7:53

See what happens in Twenty Twenty four?

7:57

That was suicide into B B C's

7:59

cyber correspondent right the year He will

8:01

be helping us navigate this complicated any

8:03

of the let's crack on with the

8:05

next set predictions. Yeah, let's head

8:07

to the heart of the tech sector.

8:09

Silicon Valley in California, home to some

8:11

of the world's best new and technology

8:14

companies and tech entrepreneurs. So many of

8:16

the companies that we reports on are

8:18

based on the west coast of the

8:20

Usa. About slice a good job

8:22

Tech lifespan to Rico is there for us

8:24

in San Francisco. Phlisia from Been. Low.

8:27

From California With Twenty Twenty Four already underway,

8:29

that means it's election year here in the

8:32

U S. The. Series Refer The White

8:34

House will be the first with the power of

8:36

Artificial Intelligence for better or for worse. And.

8:38

I'm expecting the headlines to show that. But.

8:41

I'm also expecting changes in policy

8:43

surrounding artificial intelligence, copyright, and a

8:45

I'd art. But. First the

8:48

election. It's not just me that

8:50

thinks a I'm gonna play a role. A recent

8:52

poll from this as his press found that around

8:54

six in ten Americans believe a I will add

8:56

to election misinformation and twenty twenty four. And

8:59

that makes sense considering just how easy it is

9:01

to make a images voice clones and deep fakes.

9:04

Some. Of these tools have already been seen

9:06

in misinformation and political campaigns in the past

9:08

few months. They are generated

9:10

images of the israel thousand worth of

9:12

muddy the waters since October. Also.

9:15

Not tobar. New York City Mayor Eric Adams

9:17

was caught using an Ai voice clone to

9:19

make robo calls and spanish get us and

9:21

mandarin. And. Both those examples, cutting

9:23

them was fairly easy Eric Adams doesn't speak

9:26

any of those languages, and the air images

9:28

tend to have a look that makes picking

9:30

out a fake relatively simple. These tools

9:32

are easy to use and also allow users

9:34

to create tons of unique content in a

9:37

short period of time. Battered Raise Alarm bells.

9:39

But. I don't think we're quite a panic. My.

9:42

Colleague teams Clayton I'm a report on a handful of

9:44

A I tools and twenty for me three and saw

9:46

how to create audio and which hundred of a I.

9:49

The speed with which they can make the content

9:51

as astonishing. But. Lucky for us to

9:53

fidelity is often not quite. There are eyes

9:55

and ears. Rarely failed us. So.

9:58

To my fellow Us voters, it's a beast. Our

10:00

and exercise caution with images and audio

10:02

clips, especially before sharing with others. Are

10:05

also be keep my eye in a case in federal

10:07

court here in Northern California. It's a

10:09

copyright suit against Ai image and video generators

10:12

like Stable to Fuse and Dolly and Runway

10:14

Ml. These. Tech firms are hoping

10:16

the court will side with them, saying

10:18

that scraping images and videos from the

10:20

open web to train their models falls

10:22

under fair use. If. The court agrees

10:24

that would mean that they wouldn't be required

10:26

to pay for licensing. This.

10:28

May cases Been going since twenty twenty three and

10:31

was hurt a few things already. Those.

10:33

Bits of information as wells interviews I've done with

10:35

artists are leading me to believe that we're going

10:37

to get a ruling soon. While.

10:39

The judges have rejected some of the artist

10:41

claims. They haven't shut down the case entirely.

10:44

That plus the fact that some companies

10:46

involved in the case of already but

10:48

I'm negotiating licensing for future models leads

10:51

me to believe that sometime this year

10:53

the court will hold that this type

10:55

of scraping falls outside the use of

10:57

fair use and companies must negotiate licensing

10:59

terms with rights holders. Sankey.

11:02

Then the vehicle for your predictions

11:04

from Americans say any saw. This

11:06

is an easy and the Us

11:09

election. Well it's a huge year

11:11

for elections right across the globe. Something

11:13

like two billion people will be voting

11:15

in elections and fifty countries Mexico, India,

11:18

right across the European Union So that

11:20

issue of high ai and deep seats

11:22

will appear in elections will be an

11:24

important one to watch ball so high

11:26

the big tech firms and social media

11:29

networks reacts to when this this this

11:31

information appears. That

11:40

we hope you're. Enjoying this stencil predictions edition of

11:43

Tech Life reporting for a moment to

11:45

invite you to share with us your

11:47

own technology predictions. For Twenty Twenty Four

11:49

it's please let us know and will

11:51

mention them And if it's iridescent you

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can email us. Tech Place at B

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Asia How much the technology review city

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is produced and this part of the

12:24

world. So out here from the

12:26

B B C is is a business

12:29

correspondent not from Os is based in

12:31

Singapore and that's productions are all broadly

12:33

based on one subset. Of the

12:35

global transition, so Electric Vehicles

12:38

Gov is police. The race

12:40

to secure the natural resources

12:42

needed to build them will

12:44

intensify and in Twenty Twenty

12:46

four, this could further inflame

12:48

tensions between the world's major

12:50

powers. Pretty much every developed

12:52

country and many developing countries.

12:54

a set on a navy

12:57

future, but an electric car

12:59

battery requires important metals such

13:01

as Lithium nickel convulse. Not

13:03

every country has. Supplies of

13:05

all of these metals and

13:07

even if they do, they

13:09

might not have the technology

13:11

all the capacity to process

13:14

them. Que a race, some

13:16

master these new green supply

13:18

chains on. Right now, China

13:20

is way ahead in Twenty

13:22

twenty three. The world's second

13:24

largest economy accounted for sixty

13:26

four percent of all easy

13:29

production. In fact, warnings three

13:31

electric vehicle batteries in the

13:33

world come from. A single

13:35

Chinese company called C A T

13:37

L. In short, China makes a

13:40

lot of fights. Heck, affordable Eve

13:42

is now. of course Western countries

13:44

want people to stop driving. He

13:47

these that they don't want people

13:49

to buy Chinese ones because that

13:51

means China reaping all of the

13:54

economic benefits of this massive new

13:56

industry. Saudi. was of

13:58

people affordable electric v vehicles

14:00

without involving China. Well

14:03

one way is through strategic subsidies.

14:05

The Inflation Reduction Act, for example,

14:07

in the US will

14:09

offer tax breaks on electric vehicles,

14:12

provided that none of the components

14:15

are sourced in China or made

14:17

by Chinese owned companies. So

14:19

to qualify, a car will have to be

14:21

free from the green supply chains currently

14:24

commanded by China. Now clearly

14:26

that puts many countries in a tight

14:28

spot. Indonesia's vast reserves

14:31

of nickel, for example, are

14:33

dominated by Chinese owned mines.

14:36

And realistically, will Indonesia be

14:38

able, or even willing, to

14:40

change this if they want to

14:42

do business with the US market? Similarly,

14:44

what does a resource rich country

14:46

such as Australia do? Their

14:49

economy is dependent on selling natural

14:51

resources to China, but they'll be

14:53

discouraged by the US, who are

14:56

their closest military ally. Now

14:58

if you're an optimist, you'll see

15:00

countries compromise and work together to

15:02

mutually benefit from the new green

15:04

economy. Over the course

15:06

of several years, they'll build up

15:09

their capacity to source and process

15:11

these materials without relying too much

15:13

on any one country. But if

15:15

you're a pessimist, you'll see tense

15:17

disagreements, more fracturing of

15:20

relations and more protectionist

15:22

measures, as we've already

15:24

seen with semiconductor chips and

15:26

other technologies. Our

15:29

thanks to Nick Marsh in Singapore for his

15:31

prediction there. Well Shona, we made a special

15:33

tech life programme about electric vehicles only a

15:36

few months ago. How do you see the

15:38

next 12 months going? Alistair,

15:40

I think there's going to be more vehicles

15:42

getting the EV treatment. And I think

15:44

if it's really going to take off,

15:46

we're going to need to see more

15:48

charging infrastructure. At the moment it's patchy

15:50

at best and huge discrepancies between rich

15:53

and poor countries. There's other problems. Battery

15:55

life is one of them, the expense

15:57

of them as well. Although EV sales

15:59

are up. year on year from

16:01

speaking to experts I don't think it's

16:03

growing as fast as they anticipated. And

16:05

we've spoken a little bit about elections

16:08

haven't we? Well EVs are also a

16:10

political issue as governments grapple with climate

16:12

targets. My top tip is

16:14

look if you're thinking of buying one I think

16:16

you might see more incentives on EVs coming in

16:18

this year ahead so be patient and you might

16:20

get a good deal. Well we will keep

16:22

watching for that. We're

16:28

listening to Tech Life and we're predicting the

16:30

year ahead in tech with the help

16:32

of friends and colleagues around the world.

16:35

And now we're going to focus on

16:37

Africa. With its growing population we regularly

16:40

report from the continents on new tech

16:42

developments. Maureen Nayakure is a youth producer

16:44

and reporter for BBC Africa based in

16:46

Nairobi in Kenya and she's telling us

16:49

what she thinks lies ahead in three

16:51

key areas. 2024 is

16:54

here and with it comes the echoes

16:56

of the digital revolution in Africa. The

16:58

rollout of the 5G mobile phone coverage

17:01

is expected to be one of the

17:03

most important technological advancements that will help

17:05

diminish the digital divide. South Africa was

17:07

the first country in the region to

17:10

launch 5G and has since been joined

17:12

by a handful of countries including Kenya,

17:14

Zambia, Nigeria, Egypt among others. More countries

17:16

are expected to follow suit this year.

17:19

5G deployment is expected to spare

17:21

economic growth by bringing unprecedented opportunities

17:24

to the remotest parts of

17:26

the continent. M-Pesa,

17:28

a mobile banking service that allows users

17:30

to store and transfer money through their

17:33

mobile phones, is also expected to

17:35

continue expanding its reach of the continent. The

17:37

company started its operation in Ethiopia

17:40

last year and so far it

17:42

has already registered 1.2 million members.

17:44

Ethiopia, the second most populous African

17:47

country, has around 120 million

17:50

people and offers enormous opportunities

17:52

for a growing financial technology

17:54

company. It will be interesting

17:57

to watch how M-Pesa performs in a country with

17:59

limited formal financial support. In

18:01

Pictures Africa's. Largest financial technology

18:04

purple. Serving. Overseas to and

18:06

be lumped the summers of the month. In.

18:08

The Realm of Entertainment. They're

18:11

different. continents is expected to hit both.

18:13

Be here with the dimming method. imagine

18:15

as a particularly. Located factor when I'm

18:17

not, Gamma from the continent has more

18:20

than doubled over the past. Ideas From

18:22

Prevent: Seven million people in Twenty Fifteen

18:24

Twenty Two Six million people to teach

18:26

and fun and it's expected to continue.

18:29

Growing up against hepatic Malibu woman in

18:31

Africa with Nigeria living the way of

18:33

the time to house number of mobile

18:35

game downloads and active users. I.

18:38

Thanked him Mario, Nigeria from that

18:40

A D C Nairobi, Kenya for

18:42

heart projections are so devoid of

18:45

sides T Mobile technologies particularly important

18:47

and prices and Africa with are

18:49

not many established. Tar on our

18:52

fiber lightens. Yeah, we live in

18:54

a much more connected world, so if

18:56

you're able to give health workers or

18:58

other officials a means to connect to

19:00

the wider world seeking get a lot

19:02

more help into places to deal with

19:04

a lot of really big problems. By

19:06

also interesting to hear Modine talking about

19:08

the growing gaming scene in Africa. Globally,

19:10

it's a huge market, as we knew

19:12

it outperforms both the music and film

19:14

industries. So we beat State to Tech

19:16

Life's Tom Garcon. He's our gaming experts and

19:18

here are his sell some what's to come

19:21

this year. Twenty. Twenty Four look

19:23

set span of a bump a year

19:25

for gamers after Twenty Twenty Three was

19:27

quite possibly the biggest see we've ever

19:29

had in videodisks. Beer opens with a

19:31

brand new game in the free running

19:33

Prince of Persia series the first and

19:36

over a decade. January also sees a

19:38

lot of fighting game secular under pick

19:40

some intense fans with Princess Peach. so

19:42

time on of so the first games

19:44

of pizza is believed to since two

19:46

thousand. Nine. And Ten though is

19:49

no slouch when it comes to female lead

19:51

games. Just look at Metroid same as around

19:53

and fans are wondering if Twenty Twenty Fours

19:55

finally gonna be be year the we get

19:57

news about the months delayed Metroid Prime fool.

20:00

We'll see. But to some

20:02

extent, it might be a year that becomes

20:04

known for its reliance on remakes and remasters,

20:06

with high profile remakes of Final Fantasy VII

20:08

and Alone in the Dark slated for

20:11

2024 releases, as well as

20:13

the highly anticipated remake of Persona

20:15

3, subtitled Reload. While

20:18

this won't be a release that's on

20:20

the radar of most gamers, to a

20:22

particular group of individuals like myself looking

20:24

to boast their nerd credentials, the upcoming

20:26

Factorio Space Age downloadable content is likely

20:28

going to be a massive highlight of

20:30

the year. It's the first

20:33

expansion to the hugely successful PC game

20:35

Factorio, which has absorbed hundreds of hours

20:37

of gamers' lives since it launched a

20:39

few years ago. But

20:41

the big question mark surrounds the

20:43

anticipated release of a sequel to

20:46

the Nintendo Switch. The riotously successful

20:48

handheld gaming console hasn't even been

20:50

publicly confirmed to exist, yet

20:52

most gaming sites are setting out their

20:54

expectations for Switch 2 news to come

20:56

this year, though we've got no inside

20:58

track on that, and don't be surprised

21:00

if Nintendo decides it can get a few more years

21:03

out of a Switch yet. For

21:05

those hoping gaming convention E3 might return,

21:07

I'm afraid I've got some bad news.

21:10

Once the biggest event in gaming, where

21:12

all the new games got announced in

21:15

big keynote speeches, it'll now never happen

21:17

again. E3's been cancelled forever,

21:19

and with it, one of my life ambitions

21:21

has been dashed. Still, there are plenty of

21:24

massive gaming events that have emerged in the

21:26

interim, and big conferences like PAX East and

21:28

Gamescom look set to kick off 2024 with

21:30

a bang. Still,

21:33

while gamers might look at all of

21:35

this with greedy anticipation, One Look Online will

21:37

tell you that a lot of people intend on using

21:39

this year to simply catch up with a

21:41

huge amount of games that dropped in 2023,

21:44

maybe pick up some deals and wait to

21:46

see what comes from another potentially huge year

21:48

in video games. TV

22:00

channels and you'll know the presenters

22:02

Spencer Kelly and Lara Lewington. Both

22:05

of course make guest appearances on TechLife too

22:07

so we asked Spencer and Lara for their

22:09

thoughts on the world of tech looking back

22:11

to the year just gone and also looking

22:13

ahead. I think we did remarkably with our

22:15

predictions last year don't you? I think we

22:18

did. We did a very good job of saying what

22:20

wasn't going to be massive. Exactly

22:22

like blockchain. Quantum

22:24

computing. Yeah 3D printing. 3D TVs.

22:26

Yeah VR. NFTs. Oh

22:30

how are your NFTs going? Yeah exactly.

22:32

Dows. Do you remember Dows? I

22:34

remember Dows. So yeah we were very

22:36

good at predicting what didn't happen. What

22:39

else do you think you've been excited by

22:41

this year that might go stratospheric? Well I

22:43

got very excited about the health space. I

22:45

was really really keen to cover a lot

22:48

of longevity stuff earlier in the year. The

22:50

concept of increasing your health span not from

22:52

crazy living to 300 and I

22:55

think we've made big progress. The ability to

22:57

collect lots of data and the

22:59

big thing that's happened has also had a

23:02

huge impact on where future health is going

23:04

and that thing is... Give me an

23:06

A. A. Give me an I. I.

23:09

What have you got? AI. Correct.

23:12

Yes. It's just over a year since

23:15

chat GPT launched and large language models

23:17

being integrated into loads of stuff

23:19

and the fact that you can

23:21

now do complicated things just by describing what

23:23

you want to happen in English and the

23:25

software will interpret that. I think that's been

23:28

the huge thing so

23:30

it can generate poems

23:32

and essays for you and it can

23:34

also generate photos and videos from simple

23:36

text descriptions and they're getting better. I

23:38

mean the photos are already really good.

23:40

The videos I've been looking at recently,

23:42

the AI generated videos, they

23:44

are getting really really good.

23:47

But obviously there's been lots of

23:49

AI around us for a long time

23:51

but the conversation totally changed. Everybody became

23:53

really interested. It became a really emotive

23:55

subject and as well as the fact

23:57

that people were panicking about the existential...

24:00

crisis. Also in terms of bias

24:02

and disinformation right now, a lot

24:04

of important conversations are now happening.

24:06

And talking about disinformation so you can generate

24:08

really realistic photos already. The videos as I

24:10

say will get there and I'm thinking that

24:13

2024 is a really important year because so

24:16

many countries are having elections and that means

24:18

that I'm sure we're going to see lots

24:20

of fake photos, we're going to see lots

24:22

of fake videos of important people supposedly

24:25

doing important things and also the

24:27

spam bots that you'll get on social media.

24:30

They won't just be like a

24:32

million Twitter accounts all pumping out

24:34

the same disinformation. Now I think

24:37

each one of the spam bots will be able

24:39

to generate unique disinformation,

24:41

uniquely phrase disinformation and possibly also

24:43

will be able to have conversations

24:45

with people who genuinely think they're

24:48

talking to real people. Frighteningly convincing

24:51

and also we're going to struggle with

24:53

trusting the real stuff because once you open people's

24:55

eyes to this there's lots of talk about watermarking

24:58

and how we're going to identify things generated by

25:00

AI but just because it's AI generated doesn't mean

25:02

it's bad just because it's created by a human

25:04

doesn't mean it's good. So there's a lot to

25:06

navigate here but one thing I can tell you

25:09

for sure is we're unlikely to be doing that

25:11

in the metaverse next year. Ah yes

25:13

I won't see you there next year. I

25:15

won't see you there. Well

25:18

that was fun thanks to Spencer and

25:20

Lara from Click for sharing their predictions.

25:28

So we're nearly at the end of the

25:30

show. Alistair do you have any tech predictions

25:32

for 2024? Well I'm just going to

25:34

pick up on something Sven and Lara

25:36

we're talking about their hyper personalisation because

25:38

of AI adverts that can be tailored

25:40

to you but crucially data is important

25:42

in that and I think we're going

25:44

to see even more scrutiny on what

25:46

data companies hold and how they use

25:48

it. What about yourself? I'm

25:50

going to touch on something that we've not really

25:52

covered in the program yet and that's social media.

25:55

I'm a big fan of it and I think

25:57

if you're on socials then you'll be migrating to

25:59

short-form videos. this year. TikTok obviously growing,

26:01

who knows what new platforms might emerge

26:04

but I think that that's going to

26:06

be even bigger as we look ahead

26:08

to 2024. We're going to be busy. Thank

26:17

you so much for listening to

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