Hum Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 Two massive industrial accidents: India has a nuclear disaster, China a huge chemical factory explosion. Leading politician dies in a plane crash. :ermm: In August, three UK soldiers win Victoria Crosses for daring night raid deep into Taliban stronghold. Earthquake in California and the famous Hollywood sign is damaged. Wild animal disease scare results in mass slaughter of livestock. :ermm: Paul McCartney makes a record with Yoko Ono in honour of John Lennon. :rolleyes: In February the Beckhams reveal that are planning a divorce. Liverpool win the FA cup The Spring month will see angry demonstrations over wage and pension cuts source Economy: The two American economies — the Big Money economy and the Average Working Family economy — will continue to diverge. Corporate profits will continue to rise, as will the stock market. But typical wages will go nowhere, joblessness will remain high, the ranks of the long-term unemployed will continue to rise, the housing recovery will remain stalled, and consumer confidence will sag. The big disconnect between corporate profits and jobs is likely to continue because America's big businesses are depending less and less on U.S. sales and U.S. workers. Their big profits are coming from two sources: (1) growing sales in China, India, and other fast-growing countries, and (2) slimmed-down US payrolls. In a typical recovery, profits lead to more hiring. That's because in a typical recovery, American consumers head back to the malls — and their buying justifies more hires. Not this time. All the hype about Christmas sales over the last few weeks masked the fact that American consumers demanded bargain-basement prices. And the price-cutting dramatically reduced sellers' margins. In short, profits aren't coming from American consumers — and profits won't be coming from American consumers in 2011. source Politics: The mainstream media will, by the end of the year, start to rekindle its love for Obama after a few months of bickering and sniping over his alleged move to the center. Obama will face another moment arguably similar to the Iranian Green revolution, only this time in North Korea. He will opt for stability over freedom, again. There will be a large number of very successful symbolic cuts to the budget and too few substantive ones. Newt Gingrich will do much better than expected in the pre-primary debates, garnering support from both anti-establishment conservatives who don’t think Sarah Palin is electable and from mainstream conservatives who don’t think Romney is conservative enough. Guantanamo Bay prison will not be closed. Fidel Castro will die. Europe’s financial crisis will get far worse. At least one country will actively try to leave the Euro, causing a major political crisis. China will experience a major economic correction, causing global concern over Chinese political stability. A rise in global food prices will create an international crisis. source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted January 1, 2011 Author Share Posted January 1, 2011 Tech: * IT Spending Will Recover - IT spending recovery driven by cloud services. IDC predicts spending on IT cloud services will grow at a rate five times higher than the rest of the IT industry - a 30% increase over 2010. The firm also expects to see steady growth in other IT spending, such as hardware (7.8% year-over-year growth) and software (5.3% growth). * Non-PC Mobile Devices Will Out Sell PCs - IDC expects non-PC mobile devices such as smart phone and tables will out sell PCs within the next 18 months. * 25 Billion Mobile Apps Will Be Sold - IDC expects nearly 25 billion mobile apps will be sold in 2011, up from 10 billion in 2010, and that the mobile app ecosystem will restructure the channels for digital content and services for consumers. * Social Business Software Market Will Grow, Consolidate - IDC forecasts a growth rate of 38% through 2014 for social business software, and believes more than 40% of SMBs will be using social networks by the end of 2011. The firm also expects 2011 to be marked by consolidation as major vendors acquire smaller players. * Social Networks and Mobile Shake-Up Verticals - Retail, financial services and healthcare will all be shaken up by social networking and mobile devices. IDC predicts consumers will use price comparison apps to shop for better deals, demand mobile banking and payments and 14% of adult Americans will use a mobile health application in 2011. source Media: Google will buy a movie studio/movie library. Discovery Communications and Scripps Networks will merge. Carol Bartz will be fired as CEO of Yahoo. Warner Music will finally buy EMI. source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted January 1, 2011 Member Share Posted January 1, 2011 Is there any reason to continue living? :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudslag Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 All doom and gloom and most will end up bogus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 The Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono prediction is by far the most frightening IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted January 5, 2011 Author Share Posted January 5, 2011 Leading politician dies in a plane crash. :ermm: This is one of those vague predictions, that sounds like they are just grasping at past events to have a 'hit'. Leading -- as in President, or town Mayor ? Most likely a politician of some kind dies in a plane crash, nearly every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Berry Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 Place bets now, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconian Guppy Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 doubt the beckams will divorce though, so scratch that out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudslag Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 doubt the beckams will divorce though, so scratch that out. really, out of all that was listed thats the one you doubt? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Paliath Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 The iPhone will come to Veri... oh :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4CxbqFxVnstmA Veteran Posted January 12, 2011 Veteran Share Posted January 12, 2011 How do these people know all this stuff? Are they from the future or what? :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brentaal Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 How do these people know all this stuff? Are they from the future or what? :blink: Simple. They lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad. Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Well Liverpool got knocked out of the FA Cup, the Beckhams hve announced that they're expecting another baby. So yeah, so much BS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted January 12, 2011 Administrators Share Posted January 12, 2011 Well Liverpool got knocked out of the FA Cup, the Beckhams hve announced that they're expecting another baby. So yeah, so much BS. (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted January 12, 2011 Member Share Posted January 12, 2011 Simple. They lie. It's basically guesses, some educated and some not. Any of us could do the same and probably have the same amount of accuracies. It couldn't be any worse than our local weather forecaster who always seems to get it wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNay Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 It couldn't be any worse than our local weather forecaster who always seems to get it wrong. +1 so true! haha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonKilluminati Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 liverpool never had a chance of winning the fa cup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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