Cringley Asking for 12 Month Predictions

sckienle writes "Robert X. Cringely is asking in his pulpit this week for help in determining what's going to happen in the tech industry in the next 12 months." I expect that robots will take over the world, and openly hunt humans in a post apocolyptic landscape. This will occur in January. For the rest of the year, technology will take a vacation.

Comments

Re:I predict LNUX will die

[NineNine]

LNUX *will* die in the next year... no question about that, but Linux won't die. It's gonna remain in the background as a sturdy little OS used on various servers.

Re:What about last years predictions?

[dildatron]

here's his 2002 predictions.

Re:Where is technology going?

[Anonymous Coward]

does anyone know where this idiom came from?

From a southpark episode.

Re:Major war - RIAA/MPAA vs Usenet

[Reality Master 101]

Who are they going to sue?

Actually, Usenet would be trivial to attack. You just attack the people posting movies or music. It's not that hard to track down where a posting is coming from, unless you use anonymous reposters. And they're aren't many of those, particularly ones that let you funnel gigabytes of data through them.

Law enforcement has already dropped the hammer on a lot of child porn posters.

Re:Ultimate Japanese toilet is achieved

[krugdm]

...But in a country with the demographics of Florida, the real growth will be medical toilets linked to the Internet...

In a suprising move, I predict Disney rises to power and causes Florida to seceed from the Union, naming the new country "The United State of Mickey".

Re:What about last years predictions?

[zsazsa]

Let's see how close he was... Anyone got a link?

Cringely prides himself on the accuracy of his predictions. Here's links to the last few years' worth:

2002
2001
2000
1999

oops

[quakeroatz]

here

Re:Mac OS X software to copy DVDs

[asparagus]

12 months?

How about today.

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software /d vd_rippers/dvd_extractor.cfm

The name of the proggy's DVDExtractor, if you want to google it.

Put in a DVD.
Hit "create image".
Put blank DVD-R disk in superdrive.
Hit burn image in toast.

It can't copy DVD's over 4.5GB, but that's not a problem with the program, just current DVD-R technology.

-Brett

Re:Where is technology going?

[SquadBoy]

No Grok does not mean understand it goes beyond that.
For example I understand C I most certainly do *not* grok C. OTOH I grok network security which is a level up from mere understanding. In any case see the below.

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/gro k. html