It's fun to see how some of these in general accurate, but others were very far off. For example: > Facebook will be gone in 5 years, just like MySpace. Half a

It's fun to see how some of these in general accurate, but others were very far off. For example: > Facebook will be gone in 5 years, just like MySpace. Half a dozen companies will rise and fall in replacing it. The web will churn even faster than it did before. [1] Love the reply to this one. "Probably the best prediction I've read on this thread." [2] There's also [3]: > * During the second half of the decade, the Chinese bubble will burst. This will be a quite heavy shock. A lot of people will lose a lot of money. A younger/more populist group of politicians will assume power in China. > * Functional programming / dynamic languages will go out of fashion. People still using them will be judged as incompetent programmers by the people who moved on to the new fashionable programming paradigm(s). At the same time, huge corporations will embrace functional programming / dynamic languages and third world universities will start focusing on them in their courses. > * Lady Gaga will be the new Madonna. To be honest I don't know about pop to know if this is true, but it sounds to me like Katy Perry might've out-Madonna'd Gaga. Even the original post has some that didn't turn out as expected: > - Major changes will happen in Iran, one way or the other. The current trajectory they are on does not seem sustainable for a decade. Little did they know, yes? Kind of, after the election of Hassan Rouhani and an eventual nuclear deal, although that particular milestone would be scrapped after a big change in government happened in the USA. > - Ubiquitous computing will finally arrive, with smart cards/RFID on our bodies seamlessly interacting with computers in our environment. As you walk up to your refrigerator, for instance, you're logged in and presented with a customized display. Same goes for the car or the entertainment surface at the Dentist's. Little did they know at the end of the decade this would be DOA after a series of scandals made people realize maybe privacy is way more important than logging into your refrigerator with a customized display. Also, as it turns out, dentist equipment churn, at least where I'm from, is incredibly slow and still lacking an "entertainment surface" beyond maybe a TV if you're lucky. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1027153 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1027153 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1027260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1027260 [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025770 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025770