India will continue to drift away from Russia for its defence equipment purchases. India will shift its military imports towards Western suppliers, and India's reliance on American weapons, in particular, will increase. Russia's weakness in advanced technology, amplified now by Western sanctions, will accelerate this drift.

This drift of Indian defense procurement will eventually alter India's foreign policy too, to the detriment of India's sovereignty, and to the economic and geostrategic benefit of the US and European nations. Global geopolitics will experience significant changes as a result.

More movies like The Kashmir Files will be released in India in the coming months, especially prior to the 2024 elections. Modi has seen that such Hindu-nationalist and highly provocative movies can fetch him votes, and the filmmakers have also seen that there's good money to be made.

America will soon place sanctions / export controls on China's largest semiconductor foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation. At this point it's easy to predict that the US will rapidly choke and asphyxiate China's technology sector in every possible way, and SMIC is a critical current and future pillar of the sector.

U.S. Weighs Export Controls on China’s Top Chip Maker
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-weighs-export-controls-on-chinas-top-chip-maker-11599324489
https://archive.ph/BObtX

All these components, equipment, materials, technologies and general self-reliance plus talent that Japan and South Korea are developing and cultivating, these will directly and indirectly also help China's technology sector to ride through the storm of US attacks. Engineers being trained and nurtured by Fujitsu, NEC, Samsung, etc., will be up for grabs by China, as will be the hardware and software created in these nations.

Japanese companies fight for share of EUV chip technology sector
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Electronics/Japanese-companies-fight-for-share-of-EUV-chip-technology-sector

Korea Inc. ditches Japan chipmaking materials for homegrown supply

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Japan-South-Korea-rift/Korea-Inc.-ditches-Japan-chipmaking-materials-for-homegrown-supply

South Korea's SK mass-produces Japan-grade etching gas

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Japan-South-Korea-rift/South-Korea-s-SK-mass-produces-Japan-grade-etching-gas

Despite America's no-holds-barred and crushing efforts to slow, halt and even reverse the growth and development of China's domestic semiconductor industry, over the next few years, Chinese chip sector will experience exponential innovation, maturity and self-reliance, ultimately coming back to haunt and hurt the US. There's no stopping the Dragon's rise now.

Russia will experience a relatively high rate of coronavirus COVID-19 infections in its population. There are no signs that strict measures are being implemented to control the pandemic. In fact, Russia seems to be very late and also inadequate in enforcing lockdowns. Will be clear in next two weeks.

As coronavirus COVID-19 wipes out the elderly in Europe, this will have a direct positive effect on feminism. Among the elderly victims are some of the most rich, powerful, elite men who not only have old-school habits and values that feminists refer to as patriarchal, but are also the ones heavily involved in flesh trade of young girls, like seen in the movie Taken. Elimination of these sexual predators is bound to reduce prevalent sexism and misogyny in European societies.

Facing immense losses from its 737 Max fiasco, Boeing will covertly encourage expansion of America's global wars, in an attempt to shore up its overall finances via increased military sales, thus killing countless more innocents.

An interesting link can be seen between the commercial performance of Boeing's passenger plane division, and the lives of innocent and otherwise-unrelated civilians in far-off countries. Any financial pressure on Boeing's civil aircraft division will be recovered by additional US wars and additional US bombing / killing, with the victims paying for Boeing's financial woes with their lives. Coronavirus can similarly be connected to USA's wars - this pandemic will put immense pressure on Boeing [and Airbus], and Boeing will "lobby" the Pentagon to expand the scale and scope of its global warfare, so that Boeing's weapons business gets a boost. More deaths than the virus will ever cause on its own.

Boeing 737 Max cancellations pile up in bleak start to the year

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/11/boeing-737-max-cancellations-pile-up-in-bleak-start-to-the-year.html

Not unreasonable to think that America might itself ultimately kill Juan Guaido in order to create a pretext to strike Venezuela [COMPACTIDEA]

The "President Guaido" bomb is fast turning out as a dud - a year has already passed without significant dividends, despite crushing sanctions accompanying the political cover given to him. America has so far failed to remove the "Maduro former regime". How now to milk whatever equity Guaido still has left in his body and his brand, in case America decides that it needs to change its regime change strategy and dispose Guaido while not looking like a fool? US could deniably assassinate Guaido - a pretty, pretty easy task - and put the blame squarely on Maduro, in order to justify a crushing military attack on the Venezuelan government, perhaps one in which Maduro and his top officials 'accidentally' get killed?

Guaido should be careful. Strangely, Nicolas Maduro too.

There will eventually be backlash by other countries, if American companies such as SpaceX, Amazon and others continue to launch thousands of satellites each. Other countries will demand that America stop its colonization of space, and that per-country quotas be created so that no one dominant country can acquire and control a majority of what's supposed to be a common and share resource.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/spacex-gets-fcc-approval-for-7500-more-broadband-satellites/

https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613929/amazon-has-asked-for-permission-to-launch-3200-broadband-satellites/

The James Bond series of movies will continue to bleed its popularity, prestige, mindshare and also revenue share until it goes back to its old school roots - completely eliminate political correctness, remove females from story writing and other defining parts of the film, add more classy humor, add spice and skin without worrying about feminists, and of course a new, yet old school type face for James Bond.

Putting females in control of Bond films will ruin the entire franchise. Probably forever. The feminist infestation needs to be arrested or else it'll be too late.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jun/07/james-bond-25-film-cursed

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/31/phoebe-waller-bridge-james-bond-film-must-treat-women-properly

Honda's new Civic should - ideally - fail in the Indian car market. It looks more like a Hyundaish toy rather than a sophisticated, rich-man's sedan, and compared especially to Skoda's elegant and far more manly Octavia, the former shouldn't stand a chance.

Because the much-cheaper Honda Amaze diesel-engine variant includes the same excellent engine of the much more expensive City diesel, and is now also good looking and packed with most features, the former should achieve significant commercial success in the Indian car market.

Spreadtrum - now Unisoc - has finally started its upward journey with its SC9863A chip. Either it's already there or it's now very close to the point where its cheap chips will finally become decent enough or good enough that they'll finally start to be incorporated by mainstream smartphone and device manufacturers.

• There's no other purely ARM Cortex-A55 SoC on the market currently. Which is surprising considering there were/are several purely ARM Cortex-A53 chips, and A55 is the successor to A53. But the point here is that there was a market gap that Unisoc's chip has filled - at least until others release pure A55 processors.
• Good GPU.
• Though use of 28 nm manufacturing process is a shame [they should've used at least 16 nm and preferably 14 nm], all 8 cores are A55 and not A57/A72/A73/A75/A76, so power consumption shouldn't be too high. Still, had they used 14 nm, the chip's power consumption would've become a strong point.
• 1.6 GHz isn't stellar of course, but it's certainly good enough for casual usage, especially if the OS is a pure version devoid of unnecessary layers/skins [and optimally compiled and configured].
• The stunning success that MediaTek has achieved in the last 1-2 years, and particularly with its Helio P60 SoC should serve as a cautionary tale for Qualcomm. It's only a matter of time before Unisoc has its own Helio P60 moment. Obviously it's tough to digest that the excellent Helio X30 failed.
• Obviously Unisoc needs to market itself and its products better. For example, the webpage for its older SC9832E product highlights "VoLTE, ViLTE, VoWiFi", but the page for its latest chip doesn't, making you feel like it might be missing these.

Nick Jonas will soon kick out Priyanka Chopra from his life. Their marriage won't last long. She's much older than him, and he'll throw her out when he has milked her sufficiently and gets bored of her. She too has married him largely to further her Hollywood career, so getting dumped in favor a younger, fresher girl won't be as painful for her. Her inflated ego and pride will be hurt though.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Priyanka-Chopra-marrying-Nick-Jonas/answers/94315473

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-cunning-Priyanka-Chopra-marrying-Nick-Jonas-for-money-or-is-it-vice-versa/answer/Shan-Barani-1

America will soon see - if it hasn't already - the already-high and rising Russian agricultural and grain exports on the world market as a threat to its national security, because the massive revenues and profits from wheat and other food exports can ultimately feed into modernization of Russia's military (and allow Russia to undertake military interventions abroad, wherever required).

http://rishabhsingla.blogspot.com/2017/11/so-good-to-see-russias-food-and-grain.html

The Canada–Mexico–United States 2026 FIFA World Cup bid will win over the bid from Morocco. The combined diplomatic, economic, and political strength of these three nations will triumph over tiny Morocco. These three nations have vast financial resources and massive networks of diplomatic corps needed to influence and buy the votes of other nations. Morocco won't be able to survive.

Over the next few years, artificial intelligence and AI will be two of the most misused buzzwords in the technology industry. Shallow companies will casually use this sophisticated and specific term to create a false impression on buyers, most of whom obviously won't understand whether something really contains and represents AI or not. Other candidates for similar and related misuse are neural and neural network, or some sort of jazzy combinations, like neural engine.

Update [12-Oct-18]: AI nonsense is in full swing. Chinese smartphone makers - Oppo, Vivo, etc., are fully misusing this term and have diluted the serious breakthrough that it represented in computer science, and have converted it into a shallow marketing buzzword devoid of any depth.

Apple's extremely lucrative smartphone business via its iPhone franchise will eventually - not immediately, but one day - face challenge from ultra-premium, highly-innovative, co-branded flagship handsets from successful Chinese smartphone makers, especially Huawei and OnePlus. The absence of premium branding on these will be largely compensated by co-branding these devices with marquee brands such as Porsche Design, Emporio Armani, TAG Heuer, etc.

Samsung - unable to compete with Chinese smartphone brands (Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, ZTE, etc.) that sell flagship-like looks, quality, specifications and performance at mid-range prices - will continually cede more ground in the mid-range price smartphone segment to these formidable competitors. Samsung won't be able to provide near-flagship phones at mid-range prices else it won't be able to charge high prices for its flagship devices. These forces will thus ensure that Samsung will gradually be forced to move towards premium-only segment in smartphones.

Samsung is desperately trying to compete with the Xiaomis and the Honors by releasing a variety of ugly-looking mid-range phones with specifications that are a compromise compared to what's being offered by Huawei, Xiaomi, etc. What's being done to Samsung is somewhat similar to what Samsung did to Sony [with the notable exceptions that Sony products always looked/look very beautiful and had/have top-notch build quality].

HMD Global's Nokia 1 smartphone powered by Android Oreo Go, and priced at INR 5,499 will fail and fail miserably in India. Xiaomi's Redmi 5A - priced only slightly higher at INR 5,999 and having vastly superior hardware - will mercilessly slaughter and rape the comparatively pathetic phone that the Nokia 1 is.

https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_1-9052.php

https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_1_with_android_oreo_go_edition_launched_in_india-news-30273.php

https://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_redmi_5a-8898.php

https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=9052&idPhone2=8898

Qantas Airways' direct flight from Perth to London will fail, for price and value reasons. Its significant extra cost will not be borne by customers, and instead flyers will prefer the significantly cheaper one-stop flights offered by Singapore Airlines and Qatar Airways, for only little extra time.

Despite all the current hoopla around #deletefacebook, in reality few users will permanently ditch Facebook today or in the future. FB users are too "invested" in Facebook - uploaded photos and videos, and also contacts as well as memorable comments and conversations - to be able to purge it. And people's "investment" in Facebook will only grow, making getting out even more difficult. The locks will only get tighter.

America will use US-built self-driving cars and other autonomous vehicles as targeted weapons to carry out assassinations of individuals in other nations. These assassinations of economic, military or political adversaries will be carefully crafted to look like normal accidents, thus providing America with the cover of plausible deniability.

Initially thought about this about 2-3 years back.

Self-driving cars raise fears over ‘weaponisation’
https://www.ft.com/content/a8dbd4e0-f807-11e7-88f7-5465a6ce1a00

China impedes foreign carmakers’ autonomous tests
https://www.ft.com/content/2ba4366c-e08c-11e7-a8a4-0a1e63a52f9c

The proliferation of tiny-sized, single-board computers and single-board microcontrollers will massively increase the risk and incidence of terrorist attacks around the globe. Like improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and Molotov cocktail type bombs of the last few decades, there will now be a whole new class of small yet smart drones and other sophisticated weapons that will utilize the high amount of computing power and sensor inputs available in tiny-sized, low-power-consumption packages. The challenge to militaries from these machines will be immense.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Tinker_Board
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Pi
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-board_computer
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_single-board_computers
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-board_microcontroller
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_single-board_microcontrollers

In the next few years, an airline that exclusively uses cutting-edge, lighter, lower-cost, higher-comfort, higher-safety, lower-noise, modern, next-generation flying equipment - Sukhoi Superjet 100, Bombardier CSeries, UAC Irkut MC-21, and Comac-UAC CRAIC CR929 aircraft - will successfully grow against large incumbent airlines relying on only Airbus or Boeing planes. Betting on these new-age upcoming airliners coming out simultaneously is a once-in-decades opportunity that doesn't arise often.

Directly or indirectly, SpaceX will eventually get into the missiles business. The aerospace engineering expertise that it has developed is too lucrative to not be used for military products.

Shraddha Shashidhar of India will not win Miss Universe 2017 - she looks too ordinary and is just not pretty enough to deserve the pageant.

Because and only because North Korea has nuclear weapons, America will not dare to attack North Korea. The current buildup of tensions will eventually calm down, and America and Donald Trump will come out looking like fools after failing to follow through on their multiple extraordinary threats against North Korea.

Unlimited free voice calls on Reliance Jio mobile network will significantly reduce India's missed call culture

India's culture of using missed calls is well known globally. As if misuse of free voice calls wasn't enough, it appears that Jio will also almost kill the missed call culture of India.

Cheaper Chinese microprocessors will democratize productivity [COMPACTIDEA]

http://blog.rishabhsingla.com/2017/05/cheaper-chinese-microprocessors-will.html

Enforcing equal pay for men and women will lead to a reduction in hiring of females

Females are paid less, on average, not due to any kind of discrimination, but because they genuinely work less [produce less output per unit time for the employer] and because they generally like to work in less demanding and less skill-hungry jobs. Maternity and also monthly cycles combined with limited physical strength/stamina/endurance and reduced other abilities mean lower productivity. Female employees are also costlier to maintain - extra security has to be provided due to their inherent vulnerability to female-specific crimes, and so on.

Naturally, in order to maintain the "cost per unit of work received" parameter, they must be paid less per month. A fact that everyone - including women themselves - knows but people fear stating publicly is that women are hired primarily to add glamour/oomph for the real workhorse male co-workers and/or for the predominantly male audience/customers [whether it be in the military or in a strategy consulting firm or a hotel or an airline or in a movie], or they are hired when the employer needs a worker who works 0.5-0.75 times a male worker and is paid 0.5-0.75 times. Not hiring anyone means 0 work and 0 pay - not acceptable. Hiring a male means 1.0 work and 1.0 pay. But what if the production need is only 0.5-0.75 units of work? Here's where women can sometimes fill the gap.

So if you force companies to pay women equally, they'll see little, if any, benefit in hiring women. Why get less bang when you're gonna spend the full buck, after all? Women employment will fall [unless, of course, like every other place, women beg for quotas to compensate for a lack of an economic case for hiring them].

Advanced Western nations - Americans, Europeans, etc. - will create biologically superior human beings using genetic engineering methods such as genome editing, creating at least two distinct classes of human beings on Earth. This fragmentation of human beings will increase the divide between nations and peoples.

US will try to bring down - and might even 'take out' - Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines for "daring" to pursue a foreign policy that's not aligned with the US and is in favor of China and Russia

Ajay Devgan's Shivaay is going to blast and explode on the box office like a thermonuclear bomb :D

Even after watching its trailer several times, you don't understand one bit what exactly the movie is all about. Folks who've cleared such a trailer for release likely would make a poor movie, hence the feeling that Shivaay is going deep down into the ocean.

Current fares of international long-distance phone calls - the epitome of telecom carrier greed and bureaucracy, as we know these today - will be completely undone due to both Internet-based "free" calling services in Skype, LINE, WhatsApp, Viber, KakaoTalk, etc., and also due to the avaricious pricing of IDD/ISD calls that prevails today.

Outrageous and frankly unbelievable pricing of ISD calls and data as shown in the webpages below - and this is happening in 2016 - will come back to haunt and bite mobile companies.

Update [20-May-16]: On the other hand, I sometimes feel that a guy who spends anywhere from INR 1-2 lacs on a family trip/vacation to Singapore or Thailand will probably be comfortable and maybe happy to pay a [relatively] small amount of INR ~2,500 to get free incoming calls as well as a few GBs of data and a few hundred minutes of outgoing calls to India. Compared to the thousands of rupees that are charged for even little things on a foreign vacation, this seems like a paltry amount.

Google's YouTube will eventually be offered and used by cinema chains to project motion pictures, as a means of digital distribution of movies (direct streaming of films to cinema projectors).

Samsung's Tizen operating system will not be able to capture sufficient market share against dominant operating systems such as Google's Android, Apple's iOS and Microsoft's Windows, and will swiftly be retired to the ash heap of history.

Even though Google is currently going to axe the record-directly-to-YouTube feature for webcams, the broader feature - save user data directly to the Cloud in real-time - is too good and hence will soon come back, including for webcams.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/12/youtube-will-turn-off-its-webcam-capture-feature-after-january-16-2016/

http://thenextweb.com/google/2015/12/14/google-will-stop-you-recording-straight-to-youtube-from-your-webcam-next-month/

http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/14/youtube-direct-upload-webcams/

Google will eventually launch a videos-only news clusters service similar to Google News, out of news videos being uploaded daily to YouTube

Tolexo.com will fail as an e-commerce/e-tailer website in the Indian online retail market...

...unless it significantly changes its current way of operating.

Unless Tata Motors decisively resolves the many extant engineering issues of engine performance, reliability, efficiency, build quality, platform freshness, etc., of its cars, it will continue to lose sales in the Indian passenger automobile market. MBA-inspired attempts to fool the general public - such as the #madeofgreat campaign - will not be able to compensate in any way for the severe fundamental flaws in its products.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4li8Gvjd8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4MFmVq0Hfs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsVcjWtWWxc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gOMZR_Ittw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGDUjoHynB4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFOrR4QZ01M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5tRCcrhz8A

All of these boring Tata cars - Bolt, Zest, Vista, Manza, etc., are basically based on Indica and Indigo. It's old wine in new bottle. Again and again. Won't work now.

CCTV cameras and also other security cameras will soon have their own dedicated URLs on YouTube to watch real-time footage, keep a month worth of recording, etc.

Related prediction: http://rishabhsinglapredictions.blogspot.in/2012/03/google-will-eventually-use-youtube-as.html

Flipkart seems to be the weaker one against Amazon and Snapdeal - it could be the one to fall

Increasingly, Flipkart isn't able to serve my online shopping needs [link 1, link 2]. I visit it only to check prices, but it increasingly isn't able to convert me into a buyer. I'm a frequent online buyer, and I buy from several places - Snapdeal, Amazon, Pepperfry, Jabong, Myntra, etc. I have a pretty good feel of which website has what strengths and weaknesses. It increasingly appears to me that Flipkart is weak when it comes to making me click the Buy button.

Eventually there will be full-fledged word-processing, spreadsheet, presentation, etc., applications directly inside Facebook, thus allowing users to create and share documents within the Facebook ecosystem and beyond

The current system of Docs for Facebook will evolve into applications coming directly inside FB.

Eventually, nations will vote digitally/electronically, enabling far better analytics and also increased voter "turnout"

Ray Kurzweil will fail in his attempt to live forever

Eventually, a unified search engine will be launched out of Bing and Facebook, either inside Facebook itself or on both Bing and Facebook. This unified engine will search both Facebook content and the general Web, and will likely be more useful than a Web-only engine.

History will not be kind to the USA.

Within a few years, Hindi language will be used extensively in the Roman script. So much, that translation engines such as Bing Translator will normally start translating "Romanized" versions of Hindi words directly into English.

Not many years from now, either shredding will become the standard way of deleting data, or storage devices will be such that deleted data cannot be recovered. Later generations will feel surprised listening to past tales of deleted data being "recovered" from hard disks.

Ford's EcoSport mini SUV, at the price points revealed today, will be successful in India, assuming that such a design or engineering fault isn't discovered so as to derail this otherwise nice automobile.

America and its gang will be successful in their desperate attempts to bury and even overturn UN's preliminary findings that the West-supported Syrian "rebels" used the nerve agent - sarin gas - against civilians in Syria. America will instead - by hook or by crook - attempt to establish that it's the Syrian government that used chemical weapons.

YouTube will eventually add support for uploading subtitles [through .SRT files, etc.] and playing them along with any video. You'll be able to use this feature to enjoy all those foreign movies on YouTube.

Good ideas eventually come back

A good idea that's executed improperly or executed at the wrong time won't die. It'll eventually come back at the right time and in the right form by someone. For it's fundamentally a good idea. Examples include the Newton MessagePad and the Sony Glasstron.

All this current hoopla surrounding North Korea and South Korea (http://on.ft.com/174TFXJ) will quietly die. We will not see any "action" [for now]. The stakes are too high for the North to attack the South.

Google (or others) will eventually be able to identify you as the author of a blog that you write anonymously, based on matching of your "writing signature", that you will have revealed in plenty to Google (or others) on services like Google Search, Google Talk, Gmail, Google Drive, etc. Anonymous blog posts or tweets will no longer be as anonymous.

Kidneys (or a derivative thereof) will be manufactured and used on a large scale in order to carry out filtration of water and/or other fluids. Such human-based kidneys will need relatively little energy and other inputs, while cleaning large volumes of fluids.

In the long-run, people will primarily use high-speed, low-cost, pervasive wireless data networks provided by telecom companies, and the localized Wi-Fi access as we know it now (including hotspots) will become largely irrelevant.

If no major, path-altering event or revelation takes place prior to polling, Barack Obama will win the upcoming elections in America.

With the introduction of a single-window mode in GIMP 2.8, one of the most important barriers to its adoption has been cleared, and the adoption of GIMP should grow (especially if/when the single-window mode is made the default mode).

The need and usefulness of handwriting (writing with hand on paper using a pen or pencil) will reduce greatly as society embraces digital forms of text input such as speech, typing, etc. However, writing on digital devices using a digital pen or stylus will still thrive.

In the future, some type of sensors will record our levels of arousal/excitement/interest/thrill while we experience media (advertisements, movies, music, trailers, videos, etc.) or products, and will allow companies to determine the good and the bad parts of their products (for example, the most arousing/interesting portions in a video).

Google will eventually use YouTube as its primary offering for several types of real-time video services (such as broadcasting one's camera view to the world, one-to-one or group video chats, webcasts, etc.).

Future military machines (fighter aircraft, etc.) will extensively use the transparent-body feature shown in this video by Airbus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5K1ZDs-li0) to evade detection by enemies.

Seagate will soon be forced to offer its hard drives as a service to businesses and consumers alike. Such a "Cloud drive" will act like a storage disk on the Web, as most future devices will incorporate little or no local storage. Future devices will be able to quickly attach to such Cloud-based drives, the way they attach to physical drives today.

Air India either has its head stuck in sand, or it's knowingly trying to fool this country. Boeing 787 Dreamliner is without doubt a great aircraft, but it isn't the "magic bullet" that Air India claims it is. Air India's serious financial woes will not be solved to a material extent even after it inducts the 787.

Unless the compatibility and rendering issues (especially for Web applications such as Gmail) are resolved urgently and completely, Opera browser will continue to lose market share to rival Web browsers such as Google Chrome.

Embraer will achieve at least decent commercial success with the recently-announced civil cargo version of the KC-390 military transport aircraft.

As it continues to execute aggressively and positively, the Indian School of Business will be able to garner additional fame and respect in the near future, provided it overcomes its sole major weakness - a predominance of Indian students in a typical class (http://bit.ly/joPid6).

Even Airbus (or its successor) will be surprised by how different the actual cabin of an aircraft of 2050 will look from the utterly non-commercial, unscientific Hollywood fantasy that Airbus has just released as a video (http://bit.ly/k7KFZl).

As it continues to keep costs under tight control and keeps providing a good service with low-priced tickets, India's IndiGo airline will achieve commercial success in its overseas operations to Bangkok, Dubai, Kathmandu, Singapore, and elsewhere.

Boeing will soon get past the philosophical differences it has traditionally had with Airbus (as well as its ego) and take the pragmatic step of fully embracing fly-by-wire technology across all of its future commercial airliners.

Using GPS and maps (or some other technology of the future), cars of the future will correctly retract the turn signals even if the turn isn't sharp enough, because they'll "know" that they've already completed the turn.

Zarine Khan will not achieve significant success in Bollywood. All the hoopla about her will die soon for one simple (but ugly) reason - she isn't beautiful enough.

Large armies of micro-sized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), such as the Entomopter, will be extensively used by countries such as the United States to conduct covert surveillance operations in several countries around the world.

With little real innovation coming from Mozilla and a hell-bent Google, the share of global Web browser usage of Google Chrome will surpass that of Firefox within only a few months.

At least some humans will be genetically altered in the future, so as to be able to bear extreme weather. These humans will be less dependent on artificial weather (air-conditioning, etc.), thus saving a significant amount of energy globally.

Unless unexpected safety issues plague these projects, both aircraft being manufactured by China's Comac (ARJ21 and C919) will achieve significant commercial success in the civil aviation market.

Turkish Airlines will be successful in its attempts to grow itself into the league of Air France, British Airways and Lufthansa, connecting Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and beyond.

In the not too distant future, phone calls (audio or video) will cost the same or nearly the same between almost every two points on Earth.

Intel AppUp (http://bit.ly/8WG0hJ), despite Intel's attempts to increase this product's adoption, will at best fail to achieve even moderate success (http://bit.ly/jxzcZS).

Chinese banks, whenever they enter the Indian market with full force, will achieve commercial success in India.

Airtel Photos service will not achieve significant success in the Indian market. It will most likely be folded or sold a couple of months or a few years later. (http://bit.ly/iDAIyc)

Over the next few years, the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft program will achieve significant commercial success (materially more than it has already achieved).

Google will either release a free iPhone app for its Blogger service or add such functionality to an existing app (there's no free and good app currently that supports Blogger).

Every human being will be awarded a unique global identity (using a combination of biometric identifiers), which will be used in commerce, HMI, law, medicine, etc.

All (or most) education will be delivered through interactive, digital devices. The groundbreaking advantages that animations, applications, colored graphics, electronic tests, videos, etc., will provide over conventional, paper-based academic media will put those using the latter methods at a disadvantage, leading to further adoption of the former.

Many book publishers will start selling two versions of their ebooks - full-price versions that are ad-free, and discounted (or free) versions that contain ads.

Google will soon drop the underlining from the blue text in its flagship Web search product.

Over the next few years, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO will earn global recognition as one of the preeminent business schools in the world.

Facebook (and some others) will incorporate many or all innovative features of Google Wave into its flagship product.

"Cloudworthy" tasks such as spelling/grammar checking and correction will be moved from local machines to the Cloud in applications such as Web browsers (as network latency reduces and transfer speed increases).

Eventually, Google will start using the same word processing engine (the editor, that is) on Blogger, Gmail and Google Docs (and other future products).

Advancements in genetic engineering will allow scientists and a new breed of defence companies to create artificially designed biological agents that will give severe competition to conventional chemical/mechanical weapons.

Apple will start shipping devices such as the iPad with an external power charging adapter, as customers increasingly feel comfortable using these devices as full-fledged, standalone computers.

Mahindra's recently-launched aggressive push to penetrate further in the Indian commercial vehicles market will be successful. Mahindra will succeed in stealing market share from market leader Tata.

After a gap of decades, supersonic commercial air travel will return and will become commonplace. Those who had the privilege of flying on the Concorde will, however, not be alive to witness this comeback.

As it prepares for the global launch of its paid online subscription service, The New York Times will temporarily increase the quality and quantity of its articles, in order to make NYT subscription appear more valuable (to entice more people to subscribe).

Motorola's plan to build a new, Web-based operating system as an alternative to Google's Android will fail. As of today, Motorola cannot a build a credible mobile OS.