8 Can't Miss Predictions... for 1998

alphadogg-nw writes "Tired of being wrong too often, a Network World pundit applies 20-20 hindsight to this list of prognostications for 1998, which if he's right will turn out to be quite a year. Among the forecasts: The U.S. Department of Justice will go medieval on Microsoft, Compaq will buy what's left of DEC, AOL likewise Netscape, Apple will introduce something said to look like an Easter egg ... and then there's the deafening buzz about this new search engine called Google."

Re:Digg?

[AstrumPreliator]

Slashdot has a much more focused story selection, the front page isn't rife with spelling errors, grammatical errors, and poor headlines, and finally the moderated comments on Slashdot are usually pretty good and I enjoy reading them. If I want to see some funny picture from 2001 complete with a terrible headline and mind numbingly stupid comments I'll go to digg. I'm not trying to bash digg too hard since I do visit it about as frequently as slashdot, but slashdot is definitely easier to read and the comments are really what makes slashdot special to me.

Re:Mod parent up

[Pharmboy]

No reason to RTFA, its lame, and it appears it is a very slow news day and they needed something on the front page for this hour. I hate being so negative, but if you do REFA, you will see that this is really weak.

Re:Wow!

[ByOhTek]

I like how the iMac revolutionized personal computing the most funny.

It made it come in a smaller package, but hardly revolutionized given it's comparatively small takeup to other computer styles, and the fact that it didn't really change how a computer was used.

Predicting the past?

[Per Abrahamsen]

Eh, I guess I miss something, what is the point of predicting the past? Poorly?

Re:Wow!

[MightyYar]

About the only things you can give credit to the iMac for are re-animating Apple and popularizing USB.

Re:Bad headline

[$RANDOMLUSER]

If it occurs after the fact, it's not a prediction.

Re:Predicting the past?

[katre]

We have this thing called humor. This article may be a sub-par example of humor, but that would seem to be its point.

Predictions for 2008

[Anonymous Coward]

My prediction for 2008: Major worldwide recession, due to the massive inflationary bubble bursting, an inability of the central banks to continue using inflation to create a false sense of prosperity, and stagflation.

Add to that: $7/gallon gasoline in the USA, unemployment rates rising to 15% or higher, major upswings in crime rates, further tightening of the grip by the police state mentalities, more erosion of people's rights and freedoms and govt intrusions into privacy, riots in large cities, rise of vigilatism by people who've had enough, another stolen election, and big media trying to distract all the stupid public's attention away from reality by focusing in with even more sensationalistic news coverage of some Hollywood bimbos' pregnancies/drug arrests/relationship affairs/whatever.

Re:Bad headline

[MSTCrow5429]

Yeah, but sometimes, if you have even a dim understanding of economics and finance, and you follow current events, it doesn't take a Cassandra to sound the alarms. I've acquired something more than a merely dim understanding of economics and finance, mind you. As for imminent doom, such as Earth being blasted by a gamma ray burst (unless we aren't being told something), or global warming, yeah, that's the idiots talking.

Re:Predictions for 2008

[Abreu]

But please remember that most europeans have access to decent public transportation... Poor gringos have to drive everywhere...