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Well That Was A Year: A Review of My 2020 Predictions

John Battelle's Searchblog

And again, thanks to COVID, marketers were not exactly focused on public ledgers and blockchain in 2020. Even the publication of a terrifying expose of worker conditions in iPhone manufacturing plants failed to dent the company in 2020. 2004 Predictions. 2004 How I Did. I have no f*cking idea. ” Inane. Google zags.

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Predictions 2021: Disinformation, SPACs, Africa, Facebook, and a Return to Tech Optimism

John Battelle's Searchblog

.” 2021 will be a year where we search for the root causes of our failures over the past few years, and at the center of that failure is a communication system that mindlessly manufactures disinformation. 2004 Predictions. 2004 How I Did. A free and open democratic economy can’t run on b t. Predictions 2010.

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