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A Decade in Tech (2015-2026)

One article per year that captures the moment that defined it. The complete arc.

Picking one article per year to tell the story of how technology evolved across a full decade. Use this as a quick tour through the moments that mattered.

8 articles
  1. STEP 1路Mar 2015

    Docker Changed Everything and Most People Missed It

    In early 2015 I watched a colleague containerise an app in twenty minutes that had taken three days to set up on a new server. That was the moment I understood what Docker actually was.

  2. STEP 2路Mar 2016

    AlphaGo Defeats Lee Sedol and the Move That Stopped Conversations

    In March 2016, DeepMind鈥檚 AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol four games to one. One of those games contained a move so unusual that Go commentators stopped talking when it was played.

  3. STEP 3路Jul 2017

    AlphaGo Retires and What It Actually Proved

    DeepMind announced AlphaGo would play no more competitive matches after defeating the world number one. The interesting question was never whether it could win.

  4. STEP 4路Apr 2018

    The Day Zuckerberg Testified and What Changed After

    Mark Zuckerberg testified before the US Congress in April 2018. The questions revealed how poorly most legislators understood the business they were attempting to regulate.

  5. STEP 5路Oct 2019

    Google Said It Achieved Quantum Supremacy and the Debate Began Immediately

    When Google published its quantum supremacy claim in Nature in October 2019, the paper had already leaked, IBM had already objected, and the argument about what the result actually meant was already underway.

  6. STEP 6路Mar 2024

    Claude 3, Nvidia鈥檚 Rise, and the Infrastructure Behind the AI Race

    In early March 2024, Anthropic released the Claude 3 model family and Nvidia briefly overtook Apple in market capitalisation. The two events were related more than coincidental.

  7. STEP 7路Dec 2025

    What 2025 Got Right and Wrong About AI

    Predictions made at the start of a year rarely survive contact with events. Reviewing what the forecasts said and what actually happened teaches more than the forecasts themselves.

  8. STEP 8路Mar 2026

    The State of AI in March 2026: An Honest Assessment

    Three years after ChatGPT, the AI landscape has clarified considerably. What has worked, what has not, what the current frontier looks like, and what I think happens next.

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