TechScape: looking back at our tech predictions of years past
Up for discussion in this week's newsletter: let's scroll back and see how right - or wrong - we were about the future of tech
After five seasons of the groundbreaking TV drama Lost, the formula had started to get stale - to say nothing of the endlessly convoluted mystery at its heart. And so, for the sixth and final series, the producers added a new twist: as well as the flashbacks and flash-forwards that had come to define the show, it introduced the flash-sideways, showing the viewers an alternate reality where no one was ever marooned on a deserted island.
Anyway, as we come to the season finale of the Long 2020, with the reintroduction of a global villain viewers thought was defeated and an increasingly convoluted B-plot involving chaos in the top tiers of the British state, I thought I would borrow that concept.
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