This week, we put current news aside in order to review the year was 2017, and this year, as we did last year, Instead of merely having a stack-ranked list of top news of the year, we’re gonna make tech news compete for awards, affectionately called The Drill Bits. So put on your tuxes, get in the limo, and roll out the red carpet, ‘cause the show’s about to begin!
2016 Predictions for 2017
DWAYNE: Twitter Goes into Acquisition Talks (Incorrect) TOSIN: Silicon Valley Vs Traditional Business (Incorrect) ANDY: Model 3 Will Not Ship in 2017 (Somewhat Correct) TOSIN: Nintendo Switch will bring the game company back from the brink (Correct) ANDY: Net Neutrality Naysayers Strike Back (Correct) DWAYNE: Bitcoin will be something to watch (Correct) Andy w/ 1.5 points Tosin w/ 1 Dwayne w/ 1The Drill Bit Awards
Category Nominee 01 Nominee 02 Nominee 03 Winner Wearables Fitbit Apple Android Wear Apple Smart Home Alphabet Amazon Hue Hue Best Voice Assistant Amazon Echo Plus Amazon Echo (NEW) Google Home MIni Google Home MIni Sharing Economy Lyft AirBnB Uber Lyft Streaming Video Service Amazon Netflix Hulu Hulu Streaming Audio Service Spotify Google Apple SpotifyAudible Book of the Week
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Category Nominee 01 Nominee 02 Nominee 03 Winner Worst Cybersecurity (Biggest Hack) Uber Equifax Yahoo Equifax Most Significant Hacks Paradise Papers The Social Dialogue of the United States by Russia WannaCry WannaCry Gaming Platform Xbox One X Sony Playstation 4 Pro Nintendo Switch Nintendo Switch Most Impactful Video Game of the year Cuphead Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Super Mario Odyssey Super Mario Odyssey AR & VR Oculus HTC Vive Playstation VR Playstation VR Best New Computer Apple iMac Pro Apple Macbook Pro 13”/15” w/ Touchbar MS Surface Book 2 Apple iMac Pro Best New Tech Innovation (in the Market) Tesla Electric Semi trucks FDA-approved CRISPR Blindness treatment Thyssenkrupp Multi rope-free elevator FDA-approved CRISPR Blindness treatment Best New Science Innovation (in the Lab) Transparent Solar windows Gene therapy ending deafness 'Atomic Fingerprinting' Gene therapy ending deafness Best Use of Social Media #RESIST / Rogue accounts #MeToo Facebook/“fake news”/Russia manipulation #MeToo Worst Fail Uber Woes Apple’s Batteries Yahoo! Data breach Uber Woes Most Weird/ Creepy Boston Dynamics’s Robots: Atlas & Spot MIni Google admits it tracked user location data Wanna Cry Ransomware Hacks Wanna Cry Ransomware HacksMusic Break: I.G.Y. by Donald Fagen
Predictions for 2018
DWAYNE: Twitter Goes into Acquisition Talks TOSIN: AR is going to blow up ANDY: Net Neutrality defenders strike back TOSIN: Disney will announce an Original, unEdited Star Wars trilogy ANDY: Model 3 *will* finish shipping in 2018 (all pre-ordered reservationists only) DWAYNE: Clean, green tech will go mainstream in building codes.Subscribe!
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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all. Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box product manager Tosin Onafowokan.
