Obesity is going out of fashion. Useful AI is coming into fashion. And tourism to colder places is the cool new trend.
But 2025 will not just be the year of Ozempic, ChatGPT and climate change. It will also be the year where more humans (albeit not many) get computer-brain interfaces, where we send more spacecraft to the Moon, and where we see new faces become BBC heavyweights.
There are reasons for optimism, and reasons for pessimism. We will push ahead with cancer vaccines, and we will push ahead with yet more Marvel movies. According to the best guess of economists we will also see anaemic economic growth and anaemic wage growth. But at least “anaemic” is better than none. Happy 2025.
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