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.