George Eliot observed that "among all forms of error, prophesy is the most gratuitous." Yogi Berra is said to have said the same thing in less adorned language: "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." In this season of predictions, when pundits and experts peer into whatever serves as their personal crystal ball, you will be seeing all manner of more or less detailed descriptions of what to expect over the next 12 months. Last year's tech predictions looked a great deal like those from the year before… "like another round of rehashed mash-ups." We all know how worthless predictions can be, but they're kind of irresistible. Actually, predictions are stupid. They're a waste of time for the predictor and for the, uh, predictees who pay attention to them. They're almost impossible to quantify, rarely very specific ("Virtualization will be important!") and generally forgotten a few weeks after some pundit sprays them all over the Internet.
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