Top Ten Tech Predictions for 2005
Three random people have asked me already, so… here's my Top Ten Tech Predictions for 2005:
- MSN Search will be renamed to 'MSN Graham's Number'
- Robert Scoble will be fired and/or hired by another company at twice his current salary
- George Lucas announces three more Star Wars films (dubbed 'Suckquels'), after Special Editions for the Prequels and Super-Duper Mega Deluxe Power Special XP Uber Plus Editions for the Original Trilogy are re-pre-pro-issued
- Adobe Reader 7.0.1 will be released, solidifying its place in the Guinness Book of World's Records as the “Most Painfully Long Boot Process for an Application that Everybody Needs.”
- eBay will eBay itself on eBay
- Microsoft will begin issuing patches as viruses and spyware, thus boosting update adoption by ten billion percent
- The RIAA will make writing on any kind of CD illegal
- Everybody and their grandmother will have a podcast that's just as boring and useless as their blogs
- To compete with Atom in the marketplace, Harvard will start calling RSS 'Eve'
- It becomes legal to castrate / sterilize spammers under vigilante justice
Time is on my side. Yes, it is.




