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.

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The "tech industry"

[PhysicsGenius]

If we are allowed to include the science industry as well, here are my predictions:

• Cold fusion will continue to gain acceptance among more and more "mainstream" physicists (it's at about 30% acceptance now)
• 12 months puts us in late 2003, right before the next election. Hopefully Bush, in need of popular support, will finally stand up to the big pharm companies and tell the FAA to approve so-called "alternative medicines" which have been languishing. Most of those herbal remedies are clinically proven but are being suppressed.
• As the economy continues to worsen, companies will begin to realize that they don't need to put up with arrogant, socially-inept programmers who live at the bottom of the food chain. Especially those that don't have any actual experience. On the downside, this means more of them will be posting here.
• I expect ther to be several improvements in the Linux arena. For instance, I understand Linus Wall is intending to release a version of Perl that doesn't require that confusing CPAN stuff and uses regular DLLs like every other language in the universe.
• Another Linux improvement is likely to be the inclusion of optically-differentiated subbuses on the front end buffer array to increase volatility throughput.

PAC smack

[Tablizer]

I predict that frustrated ex-IT workers will switch careers *out* of IT in droves to survive, and the ITAA will site the dwindling number of IT workers as evidence that congress needs to raise the quotas again on H-1B visas.

I also predict that some stupid slashdot Spelling Nazi will complain about my spelling rather than work to put a hilighting spell-checker into OSS browsers.