Why 2026 Will Get Weird

There are only a few days left of 2025 so it’s time for reflections on the year and predictions for 2026. 

Usually around this time, I’m only really exposed to crypto reflections and crypto predictions. But in 2023, ChatGPT made AI mainstream, and now just a few short years later, AI predictions and reflections have emerged alongside Crypto as a frontier technology that necessitates big minds thinking deeply about short, medium, and long-term implications and unlocks. 

This recent tweet from Andrej Karpathy is the most recent example of a frontier AI technologist ideating about the profound implications of technology design space that society is currently collectively exploring.