I almost forgot about this. I had jotted notes pretty much everywhere but forgot to wrap them up in a post. But still, the year is relatively young so I guess I can still make my Predictions for 2006, as the final part of my 2005 in Review Series. Go read it if you haven’t!
- Intel Macs can run Windows soon after their release. This is almost a dream of mine, as I’m pretty used to the Windows environment, but I really like those laptops. One day, I’ll gather enough money to buy one and by then, they will be able to run Windows flawlessly.
- Video podcasting will be hyped but will slow down at the end of the year… mostly because high speed internet connections are not THAT widespread and not THAT fast. However, as many people get more fiber optics all the way to their homes (mostly in Korea and rest of Asia), the demand will pick up in a year or 2. Unless better compression algorithms arise and are adopted, fast.
- Google will suffer its first real drawback: Something at Google will turn bad, pulling stock prices down. I still think that Google will remain the leader on the internet, but its tendency to try to do better than everyone else might hurt them. Something like Google Base or GoogleOS…
- Physicists will get more evidence for the final acceptation of General Relativity… Some experiments are due to end this yearor get their first data analysed (I’m thinking about Gravity Probe B, here). These data will give strong evidence that Einstein was right.
That’s pretty much for the predictions. I think that they are vague enough so that they will get realised in the next year! Time will tell! 
January 29th, 2006 | General Science, Technology, Year in Review | No comments