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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. Yep, and true to form, 2020 saved the scariest example for the end of the year. Even the publication of a terrifying expose of worker conditions in iPhone manufacturing plants failed to dent the company in 2020. 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. 2005 Predictions. 2005 How I Did. A free and open democratic economy can’t run on b t. Predictions 2010.

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