Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2024

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It’s been a crazy year in tech: • Artificial intelligence infiltrated everything. • Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agreed to a cage fight (which never happened). • High-schoolers made pornographic clones of their classmates.

• A high-profile tech CEO was fired and rehired over a weekend. • Oh, and Apple unveiled its least-mainstream product since the G4 Cube. We could go on, but we’re here to look forward.

That’s the best part about this annual exercise, where we all pile into an electric time-travel vehicle and set the Google Maps destination to The Future. So what can we predict for 2024? AI as far as the…A-eye can see. We won’t even pretend to know all the things generative AI will do to our devices, our jobs, our lives—and our elections.

But we promise you won’t be able to escape it. We’ll see other things too: the decline of the dreaded password, a boom in cleaner energy, increasing regulation around kids on social media, and more. And yes, Apple will start selling a $3,500 face computer that aims to change how we see the world, or at least our living rooms.

Here are our predictions for the coming year in tech. When photos of a bull walking on train tracks in New Jersey recently went viral, many people’s first thought was, “Did AI make this?" No, the photo was the real deal. (Don’t worry, the bull is safe now.) This is the internet challenge of 2024: How do we tell the real from the AI? The generative-AI product flood will continue, but also expect more tools to help us pinpoint artificially generated text, photos, video and audio.