1 ) The ISPs will find billions of IPv4 addresses down the back of the sofa, in the rear pocket of their pants, and in their “guy” drawer, and decide that we don’t need IPv6 for anther decade.
2 ) Facebook users will at last look around and say “Jeez, what am I doing – I don’t like most of these people, they’re really dull, often nasty, and I don’t need to spend my time in this hamster wheel. You know what, I’ll go get a life”
3 ) Apple fan-boys will realise that Steve Jobs didn’t invent anything, was a control-freak with both employees and customers, and has done for IT what Hollister have done for clothes i.e. make a profit from the herd instinct.
4 ) HP will manage to keep a CEO for an entire year.
5 ) Microsoft will come up with a mobile strategy that succeeds.
6 ) RIM, Nokia, Yahoo and Nortel will get in a car together and drive off a cliff a la Thelma and Louise.
7 ) Google will reveal that their motto had been mistyped and was actually “Don’t believe”, but that’s ok, we had stopped believing anyway.
8 ) IBM will buy Riverbed. No idea why, but someone has to.
9 ) The US patent office will grant someone a patent for “entering of information and control of a system by movements of devices controlled by the arms and fingers”, and that someone will sue everyone everywhere for infringement.
10) The recording industry association will hire King Canute to stamp out illegal downloads.
I shall of course review this list at the end of the year to see my score.
Paul – your comment on Steve Jobs is bollocks. He may not have invented the MP3 player, but he made it a mass market device, and one that has genuinely changed my life. Now, looking forward to what Replify are going to do to re-invent WAN acceleration on a similar scale.
Hi Ken – thanks for interacting.
I don’t dispute Steve’s talent for winning the mass market, I envy it.
But as you say yourself he didn’t invent the MP3 player.
I would love to do for WAN Optimization what Apple have done for tablets, smartphones, mp3 players etc (already invented but not adopted on a massive scale).
What bothers me about the Jobs phenonmenon is that he is celebrated by many Apple fans as an IT genius. That he wasn’t and I don’t think he would even have claimed to be.
I’m also uneasy when people’s purchasing choices are dictated by so much by peer-approval rather than be the merits of the item itself. I have teenage kids and observe that much of the consumption of Apple products appears to me to be driven by conformance.
btw, I have an iPod Nano – it’s a nice mp3 player.If it wasn’t for the difficulty in using it without installing the iTunes malware on my PC, I would possibly even love it.
cheers
Paul