Hack-Man's 2023 predictions:

• There will be a death in space, causing all nations/companies to double their safety measures and delay further manned launches (China and Russia will be the only entities to launch humans for the rest of the year)
• Waymo will slowly expand SDV service; no other company will come close
• There will be 1 or 2 SDV deaths in 2023 (1 from a citizen driving a Tesla in self-driving mode; if a 2nd, it will not be Tesla or Waymo)
• Consumers will increasingly demand more privacy
• LastPass will announce another data breech (their 3rd in the last few years)
• The US House of Representatives will keep any positive legislature from becoming law
• China will relax CRISPR restrictions, sparking a global outrage
• Third world nations in Africa will start to get a much higher standard of living thanks to cheap/free satellite internet
• Hulu will either declare bankruptcy or get bought out, as consumers gravitate towards Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, YoutubeTV, HBO+, and one new entry into the video streaming market
• One of the major grocery chains (Kroger, SuperValu, Ahold Delhaize, Albertsons) will either declare bankruptcy or get bought out, as consumers gravitate further towards online grocery delivery
• We will see a lot more walls, mirrors, windows with paper-thin OLED display tech surfaces, many with touch capability
• Mice will live longer (since longevity studies won't be done on humans yet)
• Biometric data will power more wearables
• No Next-Gen nuclear reactors will be built (or even in the planning stages) in the US
• 5% to 10% increase in battery efficiency will spark rise in solar power installation
• Work will restart on the Jeddah Tower; it won't be completed in 2023 but will nonetheless pass Burj Khalifa as the tallest man-made structure before the end of the year
• No substantial breakthroughs in Brain Machine Interface in 2023
• Nano-medicine to treat chronic illnesses
• By December, 10% of fast food "meat" sales will be veggie
• Clean Meat will drop in price, but not enough to the point where it is widely available in most grocery stores or restaurants
• Apolong driverless buses will be in regular use in China
• Google's Quantum Computer will pass a milestone where fewer people will doubt it
• GPT-4 will be jaw-dropping
• 2 dead musicians will release "new" songs (written by AI, based on their past library of work)
• Google Home will start selling a Google Assistant that follows you from room to room
• Tech companies (mostly Amazon, Apple, and Google) will expand and buy up medical data companies
• Meta will spin off one or more of: Facebook, WhatsApp, Instrgram, Oculus, Messenger
• An F5 hurricane will reach the shore of the southeast US
• California will have record-breaking wildfires
• Google will announce something huge--something that isn't on anyone's radar (i.e.: there were no /r/Futurology posts about it in 2022)
• More than 1,000 homes will be 3D printed
• Google will buy one or more small companies (maybe VMware from Dell) in an attempt to catch up to Amazon's AWS and Microsoft's Cloud
• A $1,000 computer will have the processing power of the human brain (not the intelligence, but the number of cycles)