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Wild Predictions for a Wired 2007

Posted by Zonk on from the not-that-wild dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wired has put up its predictions for the coming year, in technology, internet, and entertainment news. Despite their claim that they are 'wild' predictions, a lot of them make some sense. Some of their calls: 'Google Stock Hits $1,000 per Share. Internet Traffic Doubles to 5,000 petabits per day by the end of 2007. And 80 percent of it is peer-to-peer file sharing, mostly Skype video and BitTorrent. BitTorrent on TiVo: Speaking of, digital video recorders get BitTorrent baked in, bringing internet video to the living room. Spam Doubles: No-brainer -- but no one cares because we're all using IM, especially at work. Second Life Ends a Life: Skullduggery in Second Life -- probably digital adultery -- ends in a real-life murder. Year o' the Laptop: Half of all new computers sold in 2007 will be laptops and 20 percent of those will be Apple's MacBooks." What do you folks think? How many will Wired have called correctly by the end of the year?

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  1. One fix by SnarfQuest · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Internet Traffic Doubles to 5,000 petabits per day by the end of 2007. And 80 percent of it is peer-to-peer file sharing, mostly Skype video and BitTorrent.

    Change that "spam", and then I'd believe it.

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    1. Re:One fix by slashbob22 · · Score: 5, Funny

      4. Sesame Street doesn't feature products. Really? I bet the Letter E would have something to say about that.
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  2. they forgot to mention... by teh_chrizzle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    that this is the year of linux on the desktop and that this is the year that sun's "whatever the hell we are calling thin clients this year" breaks the MS stranglehold on the corporate desktop.

    i don't think either will happen, but some crackpot makes that prediction every year. this year, it would appear that cackpot is me :-)

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  3. Rats. by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 4, Funny


    Still no flying cars.

    Damnit...

    I was promised flying cars...

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  4. Marketing by hypermanng · · Score: 4, Informative

    They were trying to establish a viable colony and needed to attract more colonists. "Hostile Frigid Waste" wasn't working, so Greenland it was.

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  5. Re:Wired predictions by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny
    Ah, Wired wildly predicting things; it's as if we've never left 1994, much less 2006. Bring on the memories.
    But they're doing it in only one or two fonts per page now, written in mostly non-fluorescent ink. Progress!
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  6. Re:Beatles back catalogue... by TheBiGW · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess I'll have to buy the White album again

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