Your guide to sounding smart about the Brooklyn tech scene

Plenty happened in the Brooklyn tech world this year and in such an environment of advancement and change, it can be easy to lose the significance of each milestone. So hot takes, derided as they are, offer an opportunity to put disparate pieces of information together, to make clearer the larger picture of the tech puzzle.
At Technical.ly, we’re serious in our motto, “Better cities through technology,” and in our reporting we aim to explain not just new products and businesses, but also in how these things will affect the lives of real people living in the borough and beyond.
So here’s what we thought about some of the biggest moves in the Brooklyn tech space this year. Steal them for NYE chit-chat:

1. Ethereum is here and it’s going to change the world. Now, what is it?

2. Dumbo waning? Where will Brooklyn tech’s ‘center of gravity’ be next?

3. Brooklyn won’t be the next Silicon Valley, and that’s a good thing

4. How would a stock market contraction affect startups?

Stock markets are down. Are Brooklyn tech firms likely to weather the storm?

5. We’ve entered a new age of ecommerce

People are sick and tired of all these options.

6. Does ‘leaning in’ work in practice?

Why one startup founder and parent isn’t so sure.

7. 3D printing and the trough of disillusionment

8. How the blockchain could build a better democracy

If the blockchain reaches the potential some see for it, middlemen and lobbyists could be in for a rough decade.

9. Why a smart city listens to its people