Visionary Gary Vaynerchuk reveals the big tech trends that will define the future

Gary Vaynerchuk says he doesn’t predict the future, it just seems that way.The 49-year-old CEO and media personality invested in Facebook in its infancy and built an audience on YouTube in the early 2000s by posting daily — a rare practice at the time.

His prescient forecasts have made him and his company, Vayner Media, a favorite hire for Fortune 500 companies such as J.P.Morgan and PepsiCo.But Vaynerchuk insists he’s not speculating about the next big thing so much as paying attention to what is working in one corner of the world — or internet — and considering whether it can and will scale.

“I’m just reacting very fast to what is happening versus guessing what it might be,” Vaynerchuk told The Post. Here, he shares three key trends on the horizon in tech and business.The QVC-ification of social media — people using TikTok and Instagram to instantly click and buy what they see without leaving the app— will explode in 2025, Vaynerchuk believes.

“I think social shopping’s going to be a monster,” he enthusedLive shopping networks on television, such as QVC and HSN, have been popular for decades and still rake in billions per year.Now, social media influencers are taking the same format and modernizing it.

“I think retail is about to convert into QVC in a very big way,” Vaynerchuk said.Live social media shopping has already blown up in China, bringing in billions.Influencer Zheng Xiang Xiang earns an estimated $14 million per week by simply displaying inexpensive items ranging from clothing to mugs for just three seconds.

Her followers simply tap on a button on the screen to purchase it instantly. “There’s tens and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of live shopping happening right now,” Vaynerchuk explains.“But it hasn’t happened in a way that 95% [of the world] knows yet — in fact, only 5% does.”In the next year, artificial intelligence will begin to replace influencers, podcasters and other content creators as...