Top Ten Tech Predictions for 2005

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Three random people have asked me already, so… here's my Top Ten Tech Predictions for 2005:

  1. MSN Search will be renamed to 'MSN Graham's Number'
  2. Robert Scoble will be fired and/or hired by another company at twice his current salary
  3. 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
  4. 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.”
  5. eBay will eBay itself on eBay
  6. Microsoft will begin issuing patches as viruses and spyware, thus boosting update adoption by ten billion percent
  7. The RIAA will make writing on any kind of CD illegal
  8. Everybody and their grandmother will have a podcast that's just as boring and useless as their blogs
  9. To compete with Atom in the marketplace, Harvard will start calling RSS 'Eve'
  10. It becomes legal to castrate / sterilize spammers under vigilante justice

Time is on my side. Yes, it is.