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.