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.

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.

Rapidly growing population in India will, among other factors, lead to more Indians moving to other parts of the world. As a result, the presence (and consequently the influence) of Indians will increase all over the world - economically, politically and socially. Initial unrest in the West about this development will fade away slowly as native Westerners get partially relegated to the backseat in their own nations.

We will realize and accept that a human's identity (or personality) changes considerably through one's lifetime, effectively changing our very identity during a single life. That is, who a human is at age 15 gets sufficiently different at age 25 so as to be called a completely different personality (albeit in the same body, though even that changes).

Sony, owing to the immense confusion, fragmentation and inconsistency created by its recent moves, will lose further ground in portable gaming to Apple, Android and others.

Image search engines will soon be enhanced with facial recognition capability, making celebrity image searches (Lady Gaga, Megan Fox, etc.) significantly more accurate.

Like we have DNS today to conveniently and reliably reach websites, we will have a system similar to DNS to reach human beings. We will not have to remember email addresses or (ever-changing) phone numbers of people.

Boeing's 747-8 Intercontinental aircraft will not be very successful (commercially) over its lifetime, although it'll be liked by traveling passengers.

Genetic engineering of humans will lead to brains and bodies that develop and grow in shorter time, and the age at which a human is generally considered an 'adult' will consequently be lowered by academics and governments around the world.

WYSIWYG-based editor for Wikipedia (and similar other projects) with features (collaboration, etc.) similar to Google Docs and Microsoft Word will unleash a wave of public contribution, significantly larger than the current level.

Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout will rapidly fail, unless it's modified to address its several weaknesses - non-serious presentation, overuse of special effects and music/sounds, excessive commentary (that's also lousy, sexist and vulgar), repetitive obstacle sets, down-market dialogs, etc.

Physical keys for vehicles, like metal keys, will disappear. These will be replaced by biometric keys and electronic keys (authentication using a smartphone, for example).

We will transition from human-driven, unstructured driving of vehicles to machine-driven, structured driving.

The ability to program human brain will allow children to be instantly converted into "experienced" and "knowledgeable" professionals, reducing the chronological age of adulthood.

Dedicated cable service to deliver TV programming will be replaced by Internet-only delivery of multimedia content.

A new generation of commercial aircraft from Brazilian, Canadian, Chinese, and Russian companies will successfully break the duopoly of America's Boeing and Europe's Airbus.

Earth will be inhabited by animal and plant species designed 100% by humans (or derivatives of natural species). Of course, naturally-designed species will exist as well.

Genetically designed, sentience-lacking "humans" will be used by pharmaceutical companies for faster and more reliable drug testing. Initial ethical resistance will melt away.

Genetic engineering will lead to mass production of disease-resistant, fast-growing and sentience-lacking animals (for experimentation, food, medicines, organs, etc.), and will usher an "animal farms" industry (like agriculture today).

Mechanical robots will get severe competition from genetically-modified, custom-programmed and sentience-lacking "humans", which will be used for labor jobs, etc.

Genetic modification and more will make travel to and life on extraterrestrial objects significantly easier for "humans". Of course, the "humans" won't be like us regular humans.

Silicon-based microprocessors will get severe competition from biological microprocessors, built through modification and reprogramming of animal and human brains.

Watson will beat humans in the upcoming Jeopardy match.