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chrome.dev

CSS Wrapped 2025

22 powerful new CSS features that landed in Chrome this year.

tensorlabbet.com

It’s hard to feel the AGI

A reality check from leading researchers.

drive.google.com

Trends 2026 - Google Drive

A drive folder with 2026 Trends reports from multiple companies, consultancies, and research groups.

philippdubach.com

Is AI really eating the world?

The range of outcomes spans from “just more software” to a single unified intelligence that handles everything.

allthingsdistributed.com

Tech predictions for 2026 and beyond

In the coming year, we will begin the transition into a new era of AI in the human loop, not the other way around.

mashable.com

9 startups changing disability tech

From making brain-computer interfaces affordable to enabling people with low vision to follow live sports.

sopd.design

State of product design

Workflows, burnout, AI impact, career growth, and job market insights across regions and company types.

android-dreams.ai

Android dreams

A prediction essay for the next 20 years of intelligent robotics.

mckinsey.com

The state of AI in 2025

Report by McKinsey on agents, innovation, and transformation—and how companies are in the early stages of capturing value with AI.

wired.com

AI of a thousand faces

What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.

itsnicethat.com

Why Gothic endures in visual culture

Gothic has moved from subcultural spaces into mainstream design practice. What’s causing its resurrection?

itsnicethat.com

If print is not dead, who’s keeping it alive?

Some of the people crafting our tangible visual worlds about what the next generation of printmaking might look like… and if there is one.

interconnected.org

Cyborgs vs rooms: two visions for the future of computing

Loosely there are two visions for the future of how we interact with computers.

osmarks.net

AI companion futures

How chatbots will likely develop as general life advisers.

jenson.org

Boring is good

Technology flows downhill, and we usually start on the wrong path.

youtube.com

Why did our friends stop posting on social media?

After two decades of sharing more online, it looks like more people are deciding to share less.

youtube.com

Why everyone is quitting social media

Viral stunts, immature pranks, choreographed dances, anxiety, depression, and the disruption of the very fabric of society.

figma.com

Why is corpcore suddenly such a thing?

Software swag has upped its swag factor. Here’s why wearing your app on your sleeve has gone from cringeworthy to cool.

taylorgordonlunt.substack.com

My AI predictions for 2027

Nothing particularly scary happens (beyond the kind of hype-driven scariness already present in 2025).

hvpandya.com

The age of the super IC

Taste in building products is a function of energy and runs a real risk of waning if not cultivated properly.