John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 3, 2016

” Examples include sensors in jet engines (and just about everything else of industrial significance), exercise and health wearables , and home automation , to name but a few. 2005 Predictions. 2005 How I Did. We’ve now seen enough of these to believe that “ every physical item will have a chip embedded in it.”

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

And again, thanks to COVID, marketers were not exactly focused on public ledgers and blockchain in 2020. Yep, and true to form, 2020 saved the scariest example for the end of the year. 2005 Predictions. 2005 How I Did. Does that qualify it for “becoming a thing”? I have no f*cking idea. ” Inane.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Here we go: Prediction #1: Crypto/blockchain dies as a major story. Cast yourself back to late 2017 when Bitcoin was pushing $20,000 and the entire tech sector was obsessed with blockchain everything. 2018 is a year of hard work on the problems that have kept blockchain from becoming what most of us believe it can truly become.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 1, 2021

Candidates include biotech and bioinformatics (the core technologies behind the COVID vaccine), blockchain (though I’m certain bitcoin will have at least one of its several crashes this year), and lithium batteries (giving us hope on climate change and driving my otherwise random prediction on gas-powered cars, below). 2005 Predictions.

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