Tech Punditry In 2005

Wired has an article looking back at some of the most obvious, some of the most topical, and some of the least accurate predictions for 2005. From the article: "Wireless will continue to replace land line at a faster pace: Internet telephony pundit Jeff Pulver's prediction seems somewhat obvious, but nonetheless accurate. In 2005, personal calling on wireless phones in the United States exceeded that on residential land lines, even though 35 percent of the U.S. population doesn't have wireless, according to the Yankee Group."

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nobody predicted

[User 956]

Nobody saw this one coming. The invention of blogging.

you are

[Susannchen]

so "cool"

Re:Wireless REPLACING land lines?

[User 956]

whatever is great for web, streaming video and other reasonably lightweight tasks, but just try pushing a a few hundred gigs over a wireless link and see what happens.

I find the easiest way to transfer a few hundred gigs, wirelessly, to our other office, involves a Chevrolet.

I foresee...

[MadFarmAnimalz]

That statements of the obvious with respect to perceived technology trends will continue throughout 2006. More daringly, I foresee the emergence of recursive self-referential statements of the obvious with respect to technology trends.