1. February 2000 will be an excellent time
to buy gold coins and that portable generator you’ve always wanted.
2. Al Gore will win the dirtiest U. S.
presidential election in U.S. history. Hillary Rodham will not be a
senator from New York. Unemployed and single, William Jefferson Clinton
will declare bankruptcy due to legal expenses.
3. Prices for computers and related
components will continue to drop as technology packs more and more
functionality into less and less.
4. Demand for software will continue to
grow. License fees will decrease, but support costs will increase
dramatically. Software leasing will become the norm.
5. U.S. software development jobs will be
exported to India at an alarming rate; alarming to U.S. programmers
anyway.
6. The Euro will challenge the US dollar as
the reserve currency of the world, and eventually win before the decade is
out.
7. The decade will see the introduction of
a safe, effective, efficient, and pollution free fuel cell along the lines
of the hydrogen/oxygen fuel cell (whose only by-product is distilled
water) using genetically engineered biological fuel.
8. The U.S. IRS (Internal Revenue Service),
which has already bungled a $6 billion computer upgrade, will collapse due
to massive computer failure and a tax code of ever increasing complexity.
9. Competition will cause the demise of the
Microsoft monopoly long before the government shysters ever manage to get
around to it.
10. In November of 2004, Norm Olsen will
become obsolete, retire, and take up golf. Profits of golf ball
manufacturers will soar.
