| Submitter | Predictions | Commentary |
| Derek Lewsey | Alice and I will have had NO MORE CHILDREN!!! (I take care of my kids; I love my kids; but DAMN they're a lot of work! :) | Still just the two (and happy to keep it that way!) |
| We will have made use of our TIVO's 5-year extended warranty twice (more than recouping what the extended coverage cost) due to use that far exceeded the manufacturers expectations or intent (I love TIVO!:) | We actually haven't even made use of it once. In fact, we've moved in the meantime, and for a couple of reasons, switched from DirecTV to Comcast and no longer use our Tivos. (I miss Tivo!) | |
| I will be working from home full time, for Moraware, at a salary less than I ever pulled at Harmony or PrediWave, but leading a much happier, healthier life, as well. | I'm not sure about the 'healthier' part (I've put on a few pounds in the last five years) I am working full time from home for Moraware, but I'd say I'm definitely happier. | |
| Derek and Alice will own a minivan. | I'm somewhat saddenned to say that this prediction panned out. I'm actually surprised that this was my prediction! | |
| All digital cable/satellite operators will offer integrated DVR functionality in their STBs. | Dish, Comcast, DirecTV etc. Looks like this one panned out. | |
| All the major cable/satellite operators will offer integrated TIVO service. | Not as pervasive as I'd hoped, but DirecTV still (sort of) supports Tivo, and Comcast at least does in some areas. | |
| Consumer PCs will no longer be marketed based on processor speed (eg 12 GHz) but instead will be marketed based on FLOPS, and the current state of the art in consumer PCs will be at the 100 GFlops - 1 TFlops range. | Ok, maybe not. On reconsidering this one, I don't think there will ever be a campaign that refers to 'FLOPS'. | |
| Consumer PCs will come standard with 10 G RAM and 2 TB drives. | Not even close on this one, I'm afraid. | |
| There will have been no successful terrorist attacks against the US of a scale at or beyond that of 9/11/01. | Thankfully true. | |
| Andrew and Inge will have had their second daughter, and most likely Inge will still be on mat-leave. | They had a second and it was a boy! | |
| Moraware will have grown to 8 people, not including the comissioned sales force. | ||
| Prime-time (American) Network television will include increasing nudity in their dramas (i.e. more than just fat, hairy, white asses...I'm talking boobs, but not yet pubes) | This one couldn't have been much further from accurate, given the ridiculous fallout of the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction. So glad Congress saw fit to waste so much time on this rather than on dealing with the disaster of Iraq, or the insane lending practices that lead up to the housing bubble. | |
| David Lewsey | Jay Lo and what's his name will get divorced. | |
| We will discover something significant on Mars in the way of life. Microscopic organisms or something. | ||
| Robots will become household appliances. | ||
| Severe weather patterns across parts of the United States will become more of a problem. | ||
| Cars that run on alternative gas etc. will become cheap eneough for middle class people. | ||
| 10 new organisms will be found on the bottom of the ocean that have never been seen before. | ||
| New medication for pain will be available. Medication which will not stop the pain signals, but will actually heal pain. | ||
| Computers will take on a totally different structure. They will no longer be made with PCI cards, Motherboards and Hard drives. They will be replaced by much more efficient technology 1 000 000 times faster. | ||
| Inge Vander Horst | Andrew and Inge will have a second child (another girl) | Second child, yep. Girl, nope. |
| Andrew will be working full time in Ottawa (e.g. no longer for Fluid in California) | ||
| Inge will be on unpaid leave (if not mat leave) from Agriculture Canada | ||
| Andrew will still be planning to buy a cottage, but the dream remains unrealized due to the huge mortgage on our existing home (Keefer Street in Ottawa) | Dreams can come true! | |
| Emma will be starting full time at a French immersion school in Ottawa | ||
| Veronica and Ted will have a child. | ||
| Derek, Alice, Haley and Jacob will have a new address (i.e. not Madison Lane in Castro Valley), somewhere else in NOCAL | Yep. Hello, San Ramon! | |
| Alice Lewsey | no more kids for d&a | True. |
| One more for i&a | Yep. | |
| We'll be in the same house | Nope. Now we're renting. | |
| I'll still be with CCS | ||
| Derek will have left PrediWave | Yep. In fact, I left Prediwave for netAthena and then left netAthena for Moraware. (Yay!!!) | |
| The main Law & Order will still be on. SVU and CI will be gone. | ||
| Andrew Kerr | Andrew & Inge will have two daughters. | Nope. One of each. (What's with all the predictions of a second daughter for Andrew and Inge?!!) |
| There will have been at least one more Sept. 11th scale terrorist attack on the U.S. | Nope. | |
| There will still be no peace in the Middle East. | No-brainer :( | |
| The fundamentalist regime in Iran will have been toppled, without help from the U.S. | ||
| Arnold will still be governor of CA. | Yep. (Tha's right!) | |
| Paul Martin will still be PM of Canada | Nope. Stephen Harper is now PM. | |
| Andrew will have made a major career change. | ||
| Juanita Mercado | Ovens will have a sensor to measure doneness. | |
| Appliances like ovens and coffee makers will have sensors that will turn themselves off if they're not being used in 30 minutes. Or in the case of the oven, if a timer is not set | ||
| Cars will have sensors for other cars that are in the blind spot and will send a warning if you try to merge into that space. | ||
| Luggage keys will have infrared sensors so a traveler and immediately and correctly identify their luggage | ||
| Suitcases will have a built-in sensor to weigh its contents. | ||
| Shawne Robinson | We will have left the cold winters of Massachusetts behind. | |
| We will have had our second child with Michellana working full-time on her company, The Meristem Group | ||
| Nanotechnology will have been used in some form of biopsy or invasive medical procedure. | ||
| Ted Pitts | Derek will be working with Ted at Moraware | Yep. |
| MP3 Filesharing will still be rampant. | While I'm sure it's still rampant... | |
| Recording industry will still be complaining about MP3 file sharing. | ...since the iPod and iTunes, there seems to be much less press devoted to it. |