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Title: Wild Predictions for a Wired 2007
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Published: Jan 16, 2007
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Post Date: 2007-01-16 19:54:06 by tom007
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Wild Predictions for a Wired 2007 [Print story] [E-mail story] [Rants + Raves] Page 1 of 1 Toughbook * See Also * Tech Predictions for the Decade * Alt Predictions for 2007 * Best and Worst Punditry of 2005 * Futurism Is Dead * With Psychic Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies? By Wired News Staff 02:00 AM Dec, 29, 2006 Here are some predictions for 2007: * 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. * Print to Web A major newspaper gives up printing on paper to publish exclusively online. * Semel Says 'Sayonara' Yahoo CEO Terry Semel discovers he wants to spend more time with his family. * Apple Goes Apple The entire Beatles catalog is licensed exclusively to iTunes for a year. * HD-DVD Wins HD-DVD is the clear winner over Blu-ray in the DVD format wars. Oh yeah, and the PS3 is a bust. * Implantable Contact Lenses Synthetic corneas will be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, allowing the shortsighted to have artificial contact lenses transplanted right into their eyes. No more popping out! * Digg Becomes the New Friendster Digg holds out for a big payday but ends up like Friendster (i.e., no friends). * No More Dads Artificial gametes made from female eggs are sold over the internet, making fathers biologically irrelevant. * PaedoSpace Sex offenders start their own social networking service. It's popular on Capitol Hill. * Life on Mars One of the Mars rovers lasts another year on the red planet (making it four years total). The other plunges into a crater. * Greenland Becomes Green As the ice melts, Greenland becomes literally green. * Raelians Need Not Apply A human embryo is cloned for real. * First AT&T, Then Google A whistle-blower reveals that the National Security Agency has been wiretapping Google for some time. * Google Goes G-Man Google gives up search queries to the feds. Likely scenario: The FBI asks who's been searching for terms like "dirty bomb" and Google hands over all the IP addresses. * Don't Don't Be Evil Google drops "Don't be evil" as its corporate mantra. Evil has its justifications, but no one likes a hypocrite. * DNA Database for Athletes To stamp out doping, the Olympic Committee orders all athletes to submit DNA samples to a global database, which matches blood found in doping forensics to cheats. Forensics include needles, tubes, bags of blood and skin cells on stacks of 100-euro notes seized at doping clinics. * Online Sitcom Picked Up by Network Encouraged by the news, the internet becomes home to 5,000 clones of Friends, shot by friends using their friends but unwatched even by their friends. * They're Watching You Congress passes a law requiring internet service providers to keep logs of all web traffic and e-mail for three years. * NYT Goes Free The New York Times opens its archives from behind the paid firewall, realizing it's more lucrative to be the internet's paper of record than charging readers for individual stories. Thankfully, Thomas Friedman's clichés and mixed metaphors remain behind the pay firewall for at least two weeks. * MySpace Spaces Out MySpace splinters as teens head for niche sites. New services that control profiles across multiple social networking sites begin to take off.
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
Supposedly the porn industry has adopted HD-DVD, which pretty much means that format is gonna win. Also, I was in the local Target last weekend. They had (at least) 4 PS3s in stock and gathering dust, but no Nintendo Wiis or accessories for them (save for 2 memory cards). The Wii looks like a helluva lotta fun, but the PS3 isn't any better than the XBox 360, if you don't care about Blu-Ray. The real clincher comes in eBay pricing. PS3s are selling new in box for less than what they cost at Wal-Mart or whatever. Wiis are still bringing a premium--I just sold a used one for $320 (they're $250 new, IF you can find 'em).
The national nightmare has ended... Now begins two years of watching the Congress play "Kick the Gimp".
Prolly so. By the way we have installed 1/2" Merkolon Hy Guard bullet resistant protection sheeting for the main register that is at the entrance. And a few more cameras with motion detection built in for our blind side. And an electromag clerk operated door lock. From the police blotter, looks like the same bunch pulled guns on a 20 yo in the parking lot of a Wallgreens in a darker area of town last night. Crime wave in Colorado Springs, for sure.
HD-DVD is the clear winner over Blu-ray in the DVD format wars. Oh yeah, and the PS3 is a bust.
#2. To: Indrid Cold (#1)
Supposedly the porn industry has adopted HD-DVD, which pretty much means that format is gonna win.
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