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8 Can't Miss Predictions... for 1998

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lot-easier-that-way dept.

alphadogg-nw writes "Tired of being wrong too often, a Network World pundit applies 20-20 hindsight to this list of prognostications for 1998, which if he's right will turn out to be quite a year. Among the forecasts: The U.S. Department of Justice will go medieval on Microsoft, Compaq will buy what's left of DEC, AOL likewise Netscape, Apple will introduce something said to look like an Easter egg ... and then there's the deafening buzz about this new search engine called Google."

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  1. Bad headline by MSTCrow5429 · · Score: 5, Informative
    The headline is misleading. These aren't predictions for 1998, they're written by a guy in 2008 as if they were written in 1998. That's what the "hindsight" part means.

    My prediction for 2008: Major worldwide recession, due to the massive inflationary bubble bursting, an inability of the central banks to continue using inflation to create a false sense of prosperity, and stagflation.

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    1. Re:Bad headline by sm62704 · · Score: 5, Funny
      My predictions for 2008, all will happen (balls of crystal, I tell ya)
      • the earth will not be hit by an extinction-causing assteroid
      • Someone will invent something. The invention may actually be useful
      • Somebody will launch something or someone into outer space.
      • Someone will post "FIRST POST! with the comment "frosty piss" and be modded "offtopic"
      • Someone will say something about the USSR, Natalie Portmen, a Beowolf cluster, or CowboyNeal and be modded "+5 funny"
      • I will continue to write slashdot journals about prostitutes
      • I will get at least one haircut this year. Maybe this afternoon.
      • CmdrTaco won't command her "taco"
      • Google [whatever] will remain in beta
      • Microsoft will keep pissing everyone off
      • 2008 will not see Linux overtake Windows
      • I'll be turned down and stood up
      • CowboyNeal won't get laid


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  2. Wow! That was easy. by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    My predictions for 1988:

    10. MS-DOS 4.0 will ship, finally, by mid-year. It will be so buggy and crash so much that Microsoft will be forced to release an update, MS-DOS 4.01, by year's end.
    9. Liquid crystal will be discovered by Frederick Reintzer.
    8. Someone will introduce a simple network management protocol, probably called SNMP. Nobody will care.
    7. An alternative bus to IBM's Micro Channel Architecture will be introduced. Expect it to be called something like EISA -- Extended Industry Standard Architecture.
    6. An Internet Relay Chat system called IRC will be developed.
    5. A company called Creative Labs will introduce a sound card called the SoundBlaster, which will establish defacto standards for years to come.
    4. People obsessed with clocks will introduce the Network Time Protocol, which will allow computers to sync their clocks over the Internet.
    3. The first T-1 backbone will be added to ARPANET.
    2. Motorola will release a new processor, the 88000. No one will care.
    1. Apple will sue Microsoft over the trash can icon.

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  3. Predicting the past? by Per+Abrahamsen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Eh, I guess I miss something, what is the point of predicting the past? Poorly?

  4. Re:Digg? by dbolger · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe he was trying to keep his post on-topic.

    Clearly he is referring to the Slashdot of 1998 ;)