Felt as though this year was quieter than the two previous ones. Can't say I'm satisfied with how things transpired in my own personal life, but it is what it is.

Artificial Intelligence has grown much more powerful in a remarkably short amount of time. ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion are very promising and will certainly see much more use in the future (Assuming SD can remain FOSS and ChatGPT publicly available...).
The motivations of the whole Covid theater are still not yet clear, but if some of the major online theories are to be believed there will be much higher volumes of health problems and death in the upcoming future.