How specific do you need to be? Do you need to provide implementation details? I give full marks for the XML Database prediction because he began with this stat

How specific do you need to be? Do you need to provide implementation details? I give full marks for the XML Database prediction because he began with this statement: "Nobody likes to do O/R mapping; everyone just wants a solution." And then: "XML is the most popular vehicle for representing loosely-structured, heirarchical data." I could quite happily interpret that as "schemaless databases (using the most popular vehicle for representing loosely-structured data) will surpass relational databases in popularity by 2011". I'll take marks off for 2011 being too early, but not for the datatype choice. It's unfortunate that he went into more detail by describing XPath and current support for XML operations, but I feel that's just justification for the specificity of the datatype choice in the title. I totally agree with you regarding laptops and apple though. "New and shiny" is hardly a prediction, and the specificity is relevant to the prediction.