2019 Predictions Guaranteed or Your Money Back

It’s time to gaze into the ol’ crystal ball, say crazy stuff, and hope that no one checks after the fact.

But first, these were my predictions from a year ago:

1. Facebook has a “Wells Fargo” moment (i.e. millions of fake accounts, and not for fake news’ sake but to game ad rates), and we all have a collective “wait, we should probably read the fine print” moment with our social media accounts.

Not really but close enough?

2. Donald Trump?  I can't predict next week, let alone next year.

Right again!

3. We “hack” sleep to the point that how we went to bed in 2017 will seem so archaic.

How I wish.

4. Another “song of the summer” that isn’t in the English language; but this time it’s not Spanish or even Korean (sorry, BTS fans), but rather some sort of Euro/Caribbean creole.

Was there an obvious song from this past summer?  Maybe "In My Feelings" by Drake or "I Like It" by Cardi B?  A little bit of fusion in those jams?  

5. It's the Year of the Native American, as low-level outcry about historical treatment and present woes boil over into a national discussion and reshape our approach towards Thanksgiving.

No mainstream explosion, but judging by my Facebook and Twitter feeds, things are low-key simmering.

6. Definitive proof is found that the author of the book of Hebrews in the Christian Bible was Priscilla and Aquila (but mostly Priscilla).

I am still waiting and predicting.

7a. A championship parade down South Broad Street.

7b. A certain online retailer commits to the City of Brotherly Love for their 2^nd headquarters.
1 for 2 ain't bad for Philly!

And now onto 2019:

1. The cause engendering the broadest and most passionate support will be...vegetarianism in response to animal cruelty.

2. A privacy breach of epic and embarrassing proportions will put a major chill in the market for at-home personal assistants, but someone one of the devices will emerge unscathed and develop a market leadership position.

3. Innovation is too incremental to make a prediction like this, but I firmly believe 2019 will go down in history in our battles against cancer, Alzheimer's, and heart disease.

4. You thought the Kavanaugh confirmations were something else?  We're going to see another Supreme Court vacancy in the coming year and once again the process will be a doozy.  

5. Alabama will lose a game, the Warriors won't win the title, and the Nationals will win their first ever World Series (naturally the year Bryce Harper leaves for free agency).