You guys seem to be saying he was wrong on most of them. I strongly disagree. Sure, he didn't nail every one exactly, because he's not psychic, but for all of them, he correctly saw the trend, and he's very in the ballpark.<p>1. This is happening, just not as quickly as he thought, and with JSON. <i>(XML Databases)</i><p>2. If you actually read what he wrote, this is obviously happening. EC2, Github, Heroku. <i>(Open Source Hosting)</i><p>3. Using processes instead of threads is absolutely rising in popularity.<p>4. Off on the timing, but we are in the middle of an explosion of other JVM languages. The JVM has clearly established itself as the best way to launch a new language.<p>5. Off on the timing, possibly off completely. Clojure is gaining in popularity, which ties in with #4. <i>(Lisp in the Top 10)</i><p>6. Facebook. This one was easy. <i>(Community Hangout)</i><p>7. He was actually late on this one. iPhone obviously. <i>(Mobile Computing 5 Years Out)</i><p>8. Google Apps. <i>(I'll Pay Google)</i><p>9. Wrong literally, but if you take out netbooks, which weren't around, Apple sells the large majority of $1000+ laptops, and they obviously sell a ton of iPhones, which are just small computing devices. <i>(Apple Selling Laptops)</i>