Name: The 12 Biggest Tech Changes of the Past 12 Years | WSJ
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12 years ago, I joined the Wall Street Journal and this tiny little baby iPhone was cutting edge.

Today I'm leaving the Wall street journal and this iPhone 17 Pro is a supercomputer.

In the last dozen years, tech has reshaped our lives and somehow reshaped my face.

This is the iPhone 6, the iPhone 6s, the iPhone 8, iPhone X, the bigger iPhone Xs Max.

This is the iPhone 12, iPhone 13, iPhone 14, iPhone 15, iPhone 16.

Yes, I'm leaving the Wall Street Journal to go build something new.

But first I thought it would be fun to send a message to 2014 me.

Here are 12 things you're about to experience.

In the next 12 years, phones are going to grow in size and capabilities and become water resistant.

In 2016, you'll review the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 entirely underw.

A week later, Samsung will recall the phone because its batteries explode.

Probably because you did this to one of its last phones.

American cheese sized 4.5 inch square touchscreen headphone jacks.

Everyone's going to start using emojis to communicate and you're going to make this weird ass video.

Today Amazon will release a talking speaker called the Echo with a talking assistant called Alexa.

I've added buy a monkey to your to do list.

The Apple Watch will be Apple's first big product announcement since the death of Steve Jobs.

You'll wear a crazy helmet camera to do the first review and focus on the health and fitness features.

Apple will also add fall detection over the years.

And you'll do a crazy stunt with an actual stunt double.

And also, somewhere in there, you're gonna go through a green screen obsession.

Since the dawn of time, the stick has been essential to human survival, helping us explore the world and protect ourselves.

5G carriers and phone makers are going to hype it like it's the second coming.

Slightly faster speeds and one really cool video shoot at Giant Stadium.

Just me, my iPhones and some super fast Verizon 5G.

Oh, and a tent you used to to test in Chicago.

I wish I could tell you those feeds are everywhere and the coverage is wonderful and the world has changed forever.

But no, you become Korea's public enemy number one for putting a hot dog in one of Samsung's first foldable phones.

Facebook is going to change its name to Meta, an attempt to get us to all wear VR headsets and live in the metaverse.

Yeah, I definitely don't feel very well right now.

You'll interview some of the biggest names in tech, first in an elevator and then other places.

So that's what created the GPT4, for example, which essentially changed the world with Siri.

I'm opening my garage, I'm closing my garage, I'm turning on my lights, all kinds of things.

We used publicly available data and license data, so videos on YouTube.

You'll try a lot of home robots and by 2026 you still won't have a great one that does anything other than vacuum.

Electric vehicles will become computers on wheels, which with advanced battery and charging technology, self driving features, and

giant interior screens, feels like a display for ants.

Something called OpenAI will release something called ChatGPT.

It'll write like a human, make images like a human, and do lots of other human like stuff.

The generative AI craze is going to upend everything.

And doing a bunch of other deeply weird things with it.

You're going to have an incredible run at one of the most storied news organizations in the world.

You're going to have some of the most amazing viewers and readers, people who follow you, yell at you, and

Thank you so much for your support all of these years.

And what's the deal with these laptops that only browse the web?

What are you going to sell us next, Google?

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