Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025 - The New York Times
Hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton
Produced by Whitney Jones and Rachel Cohn
Edited by Jen Poyant
Engineered by Alyssa Moxley
Original music by Dan Powell and Diane Wong
Last year we debuted Hard Fork’s 100 Most Iconic Technologies list, in which we ranked the technologies from across all of history that best define life as we know it. To our surprise, it became one of our most popular episodes ever. So now we’re doing it again — with a twist. All year, we’ve been collecting ideas for the 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025, and this week we present them to you, along with our case for why each entry played an important part in defining this year, for better or worse.
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“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton and produced by Whitney Jones and Rachel Cohn. This episode was edited by Jen Poyant. Engineering by Alyssa Moxley and original music by Dan Powell and Diane Wong. Fact-checking by Will Peischel.
Special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam and Dahlia Haddad.