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I predict Afflictor.com will continue using crappy public domain art.

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was hit or miss in its predictions about the 20th century, but Forbes blogger Rich Karlgaard tries a more reasonable length of time with his own 20 predictions for the next decade. (A thanks to the great site Newmark’s Door for pointing me to the post.) Here are just a few of his prognostications:

Almost All Cancer Becomes Manageable
The good news about health in the 2010s is that almost all cancers will become manageable events, assuming reasonably early detection.

Dow Hits 36,000
Finally.

One Cloud Company (Or Another) Becomes the Most Valuable Company on Earth
Moore’s Law continues at the pace of 2x every two years. Bandwidth improves 3x every two years. These trends predict ubiquitous cloud cover for planet earth. Who will own the giant fog machine? Google? Cisco? Microsoft? Amazon? Huawei?

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