| 1. Apple won't release a new product category (like an iWatch). But they'll do just fine by having the best industrial design and hardware. 2. Bitcoin and other digital currencies will take the world by storm. 3. Google will make a major improvement in AI with Google Now. 4. There will be another SnapChat or Instagram like product that'll make communicating with phones fun in a new way. 5. The internet and social networks will continue to cause social upheaval in authoritarian nations. 6. Facebook will add auto-playing video commercials and people will hate them. 7. Low-end cameras will start dying off rapidly. There will only be phones and high-end professional cameras in the future. 8. As technology automates more and more things, it'll contribute to unemployment of people who are unprepared to be knowledge workers. 9. People will start taking MOOCs a lot more seriously as an alternative to higher education, especially in meritocratic fields. Not a big change in 2014, but it'll be more obvious. 10. TV will start feeling like print media in the face of the internet, it's inevitable. |