Looking ahead is always a tricky business. While the turn of the year presents an opportunity to take a fresh look at your strategy and plan where to focus your energies, it can be hard to sort real trends from hype. This is especially true when it comes to tech. Think about this time last year, and the excitement around NFTs, crypto, and the metaverse. By fall of 2022, NFT markets were down 90%, we’d entered a cold crypto winter, and a bustling metaverse was still more of a dream than reality. Separating real innovation from hot air can be the difference between a big win and a costly flop.