2020 Predictions Guaranteed or Your Money Back
But first, these were my predictions from a year ago:
1. The cause engendering the broadest and most
passionate support will be...vegetarianism in response to animal cruelty. Not sure this came true, but we did get the
Impossible Burger so I’ll give myself partial credit.
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. General privacy concerns, yes. Embarrassing breach, not really one singular one. One device corners the market, not so much.
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. Cell and gene therapy is advancing at a promising pace. Perhaps the history books will look kindly at the progress we made in 2019.
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. RBG is still alive, so maybe this flips to 2020.
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). Wow, I nailed this one! 3 for 3!
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. General privacy concerns, yes. Embarrassing breach, not really one singular one. One device corners the market, not so much.
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. Cell and gene therapy is advancing at a promising pace. Perhaps the history books will look kindly at the progress we made in 2019.
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. RBG is still alive, so maybe this flips to 2020.
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). Wow, I nailed this one! 3 for 3!
Hey, maybe I'll give myself a few pats on the back for once. And now onto 2020:
1. Taylor Swift begins her
post-singing transformation by booking her first regular acting job…on a
sitcom…and she ends up being pretty good.
2. The electoral map is identical to
2016 except that PA and NC flip blue.
Trump wins 271-267.
3. Facebook continues to be scorned
and assailed from all directions, yet is not broken up and in fact grows its
number of monthly active users to over 2.6 billion worldwide, precisely one third of the entire global population.
4. 2020’s “Greta Thunberg” will be
South American, 14, and biracial, and her cause will be economic
opportunities for women in the world’s mega-cities.
5. A championship parade down Broad Street.
5. A championship parade down Broad Street.
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