- Beginning of the end of DRM, more publicity for openness
- Year of diesel; groundwork for electric vehicles. Ethanol plants will close as that bubble bursts.
- Beginning of the end for MS; APPL continues to rise
- Geologists learn how to predict earthquakes
- Robotics will get huge
- "Local food" will get over-commercialized just like "organic"
- Carbon offsetting will go mainstream; perhaps be the word of the year.
- Conversely people will begin suffering from debilitating Carbon-guilt
- Personal vehicles will continue the trend to becoming disposable
- Crude oil prices will continue to rise ($150/barrel, gasoline will hit $5/gallon)
- MySpace and Facebook will go the way of Friendster
- and continuing this trend, there will be a fragmentation of social networking tools and wikis
- wikis will get really big and start being used in all kinds of new ways
- Data Portability will be seen in the news
- Software as services (e.g., Google Apps) will explode with popularity
- Weather calamities will spur action by the U.S. on climate change
- Caffeine will be added to an ever increasingly large and bizare range of foods
