2023: What’s hot and what’s not

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.’’ ―Steve Jobs The year 2022 was one of contradictions. We saw a scarcity of GPUs transition to an abundance in the marketplace. We heard everyone making big plans for the metaverse, only to have many take a wait-and-see approach. Companies with seemingly money to burn began tightening their belts. Hopefully, we have learned a thing or two from the past year that might prove helpful in our journey through 2023. Or, we can ponder why we never bothered to be proactive with that leaky tire as