Sure. Let's take another look at the article -<p>"Prediction #1:  XML databases will surpass relational databases in popularity by 2011."<p>It's still completely wrong. I don't see how to interpret it as anything other than wrong. Yes we can sift carefully through it to find some way in which it's kind of, maybe right, sort of. We're discussing Steve Yegge's actual predictions not whether filesystems or the Library of Congress are really a special case of document databases.