The Year Ahead 2023

What We Got Right and Wrong About 2022

We made good calls on crypto and Alzheimer’s, bad ones on lab meat and The Batman.

Elon Musk

Photographer: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images

As we look ahead at what to expect for 2023, it’s good to assess our takes on the past year.

The decentralized ethos of web3, we wrote, was giving way to centralized entities in the crypto world, following a pattern seen in previous generations of tech. The consequences became clear when many of those crypto businesses imploded last year.