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Predictions for 2010?
2010... a year we've been waiting for since at least the mid-80's. It's finally here guys -- so what happens next? Every year we take the 1st of January to try and figure that out. Normally we would consult the sage-like wisdom of Engadgetdamus, but this year is special, and we thought it needed the kind of time-twisting-artificial-intelligence-color-cycling-weird-baby-monolith-Roy-Scheider-starring-space-adventure that only the above image (and book, and movie) could evoke. Below are the predictions from the staff of ye olde Engadget -- what say you, good reader? Chris: In an unprecedented cash and stock deal valued at over $1.7 billion, Comcast acquires your '89 Festiva. Thomas: Steve Jobs will announce a pair of tablets, then smash them to bits on account of Android idolatry. Laura: Jeff Bezos will continue to predict the "death of the book." The book will continue to exist merely to spite Bezos. Don: The world breathes a sigh of relief that the Large Hadron Collider will never create a black hole... after it is destroyed by zombies. Dan: Apple's stock will plummet when a TUAW investigative report reveals that Steve Jobs actually died in 2002, and has since been portrayed by talk show host cum surreal performance artist, Arsenio Hall. Nilay: Google finally flips the switch and creates Skynet. Joanna: The OLPC XO-3 gets an early release date - in the form of the Apple Tablet. Ends world hunger, illiteracy and violence. Saves the world. Ben: Microsoft agrees that CableCARD is a failure and Media Center along with it and introduces Zune Center. Josh F: Adult entertainment will kick-start yet another media market, this time in the form of 3D Blu-ray porn. Richard Lai: Tamagotchi resurrects with 3D monochrome screen, and then dies. Darren: Intel considers making an Atom that's actually fast, but its bottom line delays the launch until December 31, 2012. Vlad: Sony Ericsson delivers an Xperia handset on time... nah, just kidding. Richard Lawler: Nintendo surprises everyone and releases the Wii 3D. Josh T: Google upends the landscape of the mobile phone market when Eric Schmidt says Apple can "have one of these unsubsidized" while emphatically pointing to his crotch.
