on masking twitter aside, th past year brought discoverie both good and bad in the sector jake ward has more for us. 2022 saw the enormous potential and the enormous risks of technology play out over a single year there were a lot of promises made that wound up going nowhere or worse the biggest, of course, with crypto, the stuff of super bow commercials and overnight and in 2022 in flames are sa bankman-fried, founder of ftx, became the face of a crisi which wiped out individual investors and deeply wounded the industry until investigators closed in and ha him arrested in the bahamas. big tech companies, symbols of analyst growth, flailed this year as the economy suffered medicine from the trillion dollar valuation last year t 268 billion dollars this year. advertising fell apart and a blue billions on its founder stream of the metaverse whic we will work and play in tech companies laid off tens o thousands of people. no one tech company grab the headlines quite like twi
up right down. let s swing over t entertainment and culture. will smith, is a brand down fo obvious reasons. one of the bigges entertainment stories of the year his score was one of the highest there is, the most likable guy. this is a brand that i think i permanently damaged. when you see it you have not heard much from him since. you can t hide truth you can t hide video what he did was the most assaulted, megalomaniaca absurd thing i don t think you can watch it will smith movie again and fee the same way about it. he came out and did a me culpa. i am just very curious to se what kind of studio is going t put their money behind wil smith. even the apologies have bee half baked he s trying to come out and do them top gun maverick was m favorite movie of this year. it got people excited abou movies and going back to the movie again. tom cruise, biggest movie star in the world. no question about that