Episode 631

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Allow us to take a look in our future-telling snow globes and share with you everything notable that's to take place in 2008. Now you can't say we didn't tell you so.

Contents 1 Tom Merritt 2 Molly Wood 3 Jason Howell 4 See also

[edit] Tom Merritt

• One TV network will simultaneously stream and air a program
• Apple won't have a big announcement or no new product lines in 2008, just small updates
• PS3 will be the top selling console
• Virtualization will go main stream, leads the way to truly universal applications
• Presidential campaigning (through botnets/spam) will lead to tougher data security laws
• The magnetic hard drive will begin to die, flash will have a lower price and higher capacity
• Google will become an ISP
• The Internet will suck (bandwidth problems, packet shaping, net neutrality violations, poor TOS's)

[edit] Molly Wood

• Google will not win the 700MHz spectrum
• Cell companies will open up to customer demands (Widespread 3G, VOIP plans, open access to applications)
• Vista will turn out to be OK
• Green tech will be huge, new battery technology will replace the Lithium ion battery
• A concentrated botnet attacks a government and causes actual damage
• Google will be the victim of a attack compromising users privacy
• Google will buy Yahoo
• The Writers Strike will drag on, and a Internet/YouTube star will be given a major show

[edit] Jason Howell

• The Radiohead name-your-price sale will do little to nothing to affect the actual sales of the album
• HD-DVD will become more widely adopted than Blu-Ray
• PS3 will be the top selling console
• Apple will release an Apple TV with a DVR that competes with TiVo
• Microsoft keeps Zune as PC-only
• Apple will announce iTunes movie rentals
• Google Android will be a success
• Google stock will split
• A chat speak acronym will become a title of a major movie

[edit] See also

• 2008 Listener Predictions Thread
• Predictions