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.

Not too many years from now, paper cheques will start getting marginalised by electronic methods of payment. Further down the road, cheques might get completely extinct.

News organizations such as magazines, newspapers, etc., will soon launch news services directly "inside" Facebook (as opposed to the separate news websites such as CNN.com and FT.com that exist today). Facebook users will be able to consume personalized news directly inside Facebook.

New provisions for tax calculation in India, such as the lowering of "senior citizens" age and the introduction of "very senior citizens" group, will be misused by younger individuals to accrue more "white" income.

HP will most likely implement webOS as an "instant on" system on its PCs (like HyperSpace, Splashtop, etc.), and not in the way this journalist on The Register speculates (http://bit.ly/dHF6mk).

Commercial aircraft flights will eventually be flown in a fully automated way. In general, there will be no need of a pilot or a co-pilot for any of the flight phases.

The proportion of non-marriage interpersonal relationships, such as civil union or cohabitation, will increase in India.

The proportion of human beings with suicidal tendencies will decrease with time. As young humans with such tendencies commit suicides (prior to producing an offspring), the associated gene pool will be increasingly weeded out.

Within a few years, the proportion of dogs dying from being hit by fast moving cars on roads will reduce, as more dogs with genes that don't prevent such deaths are weeded out. As a result, urban dogs will get more "road friendly".

Smartphones based on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system will fail to register meaningful sales. As a result, Microsoft, already "flummoxed" by unending sales of rival devices, will lose relevance in the smartphones market.

Apple will eventually release a TV with Apple TV integrated into it. The product will experience significant sales, and will shake the worldwide television industry.

As it stands today, the OlivePad V-T100 will not experience good sales in India. It's too pricey for the Indian buyer, more so as the Olive brand is virtually unknown here (of course, that doesn't mean that it ain't a good product).

Chevrolet Cruze, the manly "Diesel Rocket" will experience good sales in India, because, among other reasons, right now a diesel engine is the only available option.

Eventually, the Tata Nano will be a success in the Indian market (http://bit.ly/geMZOn). It's too good an idea to flop.

After continuing its bull run for some more time, Google will lose at least some of its lead in the global search business.

Despite the high-value "package" it provides (engine capacity, features, etc.), the Maruti Suzuki Kizashi, as it stands today, will be at worst a failure and at best a moderate seller in India. The moderate-to-good sales that the SX4-resembling sedan will experience initially will fade.

Google will soon be forced to implement a system in YouTube similar to the algorithmic changes recently implemented in Google Search, to remove from video search results the growing number of poor-quality videos.