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Saturday, January 1st, 2011One of the only predictions we’re confident about is that our resolutions will fail. And what the heck do we call this decade, anyway?
 One prediction we’re pretty sure of is that you’ll break your resolutions |
So. The new year is upon us, which means we can finally get a break from all those annoying Best of 2010 lists. But wait, what’s this? They’re making best of 2011 lists already? Best cars, best stocks, best kiteboarding gear? Ah well, I guess we may as well get used to this; as you may have read on the Google Blog, Google will soon know what we’re searching for before we do. Until then though, for many of us the first of the year is still a time to make resolutions. And then break them a few weeks later. As I said last year, you can start the resolutions without me. To me, the most interesting thing about 2011 is the fact that it marks the end of the decade that cannot be named. And introduces a new problem about what to call the decade we’re in. The whole noughts vs oughts vs 0′s argument is a tired trope. But what the heck are we going to call this decade? It can’t be the “teens”, because at best, only seven of its years end in “teen”. So one of my few resolutions this year is to stop pondering such an inane question. Feel free to enlighten me if there’s an intelligent answer though. Which leaves us then with the inevitable “predictions and hot trends” motif. This year, if you peruse the web a bit, this theme ranges from the peculiar and perhaps desperate Eleven 3D Printing Predictions For the Year 2011 over at the usually respectable TechCrunch.com, to the flat out, tinfoil-hat, batshit insane End Of Days kind of stuff. The only prediction we’re absolutely confident about is that more than 90% of these predictions will be wrong. Bearing in mind of course the words of an oft-quoted friend of ours who points out that 77.3% of all statistics mentioned in casual conversation are inaccurate. Although these predictions for 2011 from 1931 were in some ways uncanny in their accuracy. In any case, we’re not about to let these trivial issues of accuracy and general banality stop US from making a few predictions and resolutions below. Do YOU have any predictions or resolutions for 2011? Read the rest of this entry »