| author |
prediction |
testable |
status |
updated |
seth godin
|
There will be no significant newspapers printed on newsprint in the US by 2012. (By significant, he seems to mean major market with a traditionally wide circulation.)
20.4.2009
|
18 months
|
open |
20.4.2009 |
steven j. vaughan-nichols
|
By this time next week, IBM will have bought Sun at a cut-rate price.
3.4.2009
|
-16 months
|
wrong |
11.4.2009 |
mike abramsky
|
an "entry-level" $99 iPhone, likely be introduced in June or July, when an upgraded iPhone 3G also is released.
2.2.2009
|
-13 months
|
right |
8.7.2009 |
ray kurzweil
|
If you look at 2009-2010 cell phone technology, I believe you will be seeing speech-to-speech translation in there.
13.11.2007
|
5 months
|
open |
4.4.2009 |
ray kurzweil
|
Automatic house cleaning robots will have become common.
4.4.2005
|
57 months
|
open |
4.4.2009 |
daniel amir
|
Apple will release a low-end iPhone model without wi-fi for emerging markets.
3.4.2009
|
-11 months
|
wrong |
8.9.2009 |
daniel engber
|
3-D is just a fad: "It's happened before and it will happen again: At some point soon, 3-D cinema will regain its well-earned status as a sublime and ridiculous headache."
2.4.2009
|
8 months
|
open |
4.4.2009 |
robbie bach
|
By 2012 a third of netbook PCs will be sold by mobile operators.
2.4.2009
|
21 months
|
open |
4.4.2009 |
jakob nielsen
|
"Dell's cheapest computer costs $379 (with a monitor) ... in another five years, computers will be one-fourth their current price."
20.11.2006
|
17 months
|
open |
2.4.2009 |
ray kurzweil
|
Full immersion audio/visual virtual reality will exist.
22.9.2005
|
5 months
|
open |
2.4.2009 |
paul thurrott
|
Windows 7 will be made broadly available to consumers and business customers no later than June 2009.
5.12.2008
|
-14 months
|
wrong |
8.6.2009 |
dave winer
|
There will be a dozen Twitters by the end of the year. And thousands by the end of next year.
16.3.2009
|
-7 months
|
open |
28.3.2009 |
robert cringely
|
"at some time next year Apple will take the gloves off and go head-to-head against Microsoft Office, driving margins down for Redmond and generally making trouble"
16.12.2008
|
-7 months
|
open |
30.3.2009 |
robert cringely
|
Walt Mossberg will write that "he can no longer see any reason to own Microsoft products"
16.12.2008
|
-7 months
|
open |
6.4.2009 |
robert cringely
|
AMD will not be acquired in 2009
16.12.2008
|
-7 months
|
open |
30.3.2009 |
john battelle
|
By the middle of 2009, the integration of Twitter's community and content will become commonplace in well-executed marketing on third party sites.
19.6.2009
|
-14 months
|
wrong |
19.6.2009 |
john battelle
|
Microsoft will gain at least five points of search share in 2009, perhaps as much as 10
unknown
|
-7 months
|
open |
30.3.2009 |
john battelle
|
Google stock will soar in by Q3-4 of 2009
unknown
|
-7 months
|
open |
30.3.2009 |
john battelle
|
Google will see search share decline significantly for the first time ever [in 2009].
unknown
|
-7 months
|
open |
30.3.2009 |
