Generally speaking, when you refer to wha't current and influenced by what's coming over the horizon, zeitgeist is the best word. Well, the times, they are a changing from what's going to be available in hardware to what software changes on the verge of popping through. So this article is about the tech-zeitgeist of now.

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1. Dumb phones are becoming popular in a big way.
   Social media has become toxic for many people so let's drop it.
2. Raspberry-pi boards are really getting hard to find.
   The UK economy is hard hit and production is down.
3. Hi-tech chips for next version CPU and GPUs are about a year or two out.
   TSMC is threatened by China attacking Taiwan - TSMC is building in the US.
   Zeiss glass in Germany, ASML in the Netherlands is threatened by Putin's war.
   The world can't do without ASML and ASML can't do without Zeiss lenses.
4. Software Frameworks are puffed up and becoming unweidly - Angular/React -
   and Svelte can't get to version 1.0.
5. Backends are riddled with cyber attack wars that drive the majority of traffic.
   Where does that leave IT centers that aren't part of the Cloud empires. And if you
   are large enought to afford Cloud services, how do you deal with the fact they buy
   and sell your private data and build their AI capabilities that drive your use cases.

People are still not ready to deal with the impact of the ever changing physical world of rising seas, earthquakes, and extreme weather events. In the next few years, getting the next wider wide-screen or next streaming service "all channel access" will be calmed by chunks of the global economy gone missing from food supply (lack of fertilizers), oil wars, green tech dependent on IC industry that lack fabs, or civil unrest virtually everywhere do to inflation and the broken global economy.

Hunkering down from virus attacks to hunkering down for environmently attacks has to calm down to grassy green meadows and chirping birds for a period of time for humans to get a grip. Oh, then there is the declining world population centers from declining birth rates. Who saw that coming. Oh yeah, Elon Musk and virtually every foreign correspondent in the BBC. Somehow I can't help think Mother Nature is pissed.