 This is the Daily Tech news show for Thursday, December 27th, 2018 from DTNS headquarters in Los Angeles on Tom Merritt and from studio Feline, I'm Sarah Lane And from all the other places we should all say a thing. Yeah Man, I'm not used to it when there's like a nine-man rotation, but here we go. Hi from Oakland, California I'm Justin Robert Young. It's all like city. I'm Scott Johnson Happy holidays you guys. How was your Christmas? I didn't even get this to put my name. My name is Roger Chang and I'm the show's producer Man, that's you know, it's it's shaken off the rust from the from the big break we've been on That's as if we haven't done this every day for four years. It's the pine needles I have a lots of pine needles on the carpet. I need to vacuum open. That's from last year's tree Yeah, I hope you all got lovely presents He ate lots of food spent time with family and are now avoiding that family while you listen to our end of 2018 predictions results episode This is a fine tradition dating back to 2005 or 6 on Buzz out loud where we not only make a predictions episode at the end of the year But then the next year we hold ourselves Accountable we look back at the predictions we made about technology for 2018 At the end of 2017 and compare them to how they actually turned out Friends, are you ready to judge each other's predictions? I'm ready. I'd like to turn the value eight It's less judgy Let's evaluate each other. Yes It would love sounds more judgy Yeah, when you are Evaluating you can give a yes and no or partial credit and we're going to start with you Scott Johnson You predicted that an open source by the way, I loved this prediction an open source voice slash life assistant Would hit the market and shake up the walled gardens of Amazon Google I was sure that this was going to happen that this was going to be the year. I'm still convinced. It's a thing I Already, I mean, I know of some open source things that are happening But nothing took anything by storm or challenged the big now five or whatever it is voice assistants were dealing with so My prediction was two-fold. It was not only with a smaller Grass roots thing become a standard or get people excited and we would see some adoption But it had another side to that sword which was or another edges of that sort Which was it was going to be You know something that that made big companies maybe decide well Maybe we don't want to be so exclusive about where our stuff is. You know Google already puts okay Google on everything I thought maybe Apple might be Pressured to do something like that if this sort of third-party thing came out of out of nowhere and it didn't really happen So I'm bummed because in years past I think you've mastered a lot better than this year and this year this one's already kind of a bust Well Scott, what about um, you know the assistants at least in 2018 having opened themselves up to other platforms as far as AI assistants go Sorry Sarah go ahead That's I don't know. I hear Tom poo pooing me already. I Stick up for you. I think that that I think that that there has been more Commingling than I thought there would be in in the the way that even Apple still looks at Siri is that that is a Apple specific Device there that is a that is a privilege you get for having an Apple devices our voice assistant and yet the most successful ones You know there are now although the Sonos doesn't fully have integrated Google and Alexa right but they promise to Yeah, it doesn't have anything but Alexa really but But no, but my point is sure. No, this is not the open source Idea that that's God had suggested a year ago But it's definitely more open as far as cross-platform stuff than it had been in the past Hold on wait a minute Tom stop mulling and just get your get your poo-pooing out in the open Give me a give me a moment to give me a moment at edge-wise and I will it Open is not what's going on like actually not having walls up might be going on Cortana Working along with with Amazon voice services is great. That's not open That's too closed systems agreeing to work with each other having a big garden where all the walled gardens can be is not open Open is when you're like, hey, I don't have to approve you to do something You can just do it all of these are still deals that are worked out with everybody. That's that's why I'm mulling And yeah, and and and Scott also specified open source, which by the way, there are open source assistance There were even last year when he made this prediction like mycroft and Jasper Which is why I loved the prediction because I would I would love one of those to get some traction and truly be open Yeah, and I thought one of those might be it. I remember Thinking that one of these just gonna take fire and I didn't know the problem is that who's gonna adopt it hardware-wise the problem is all the Exciting hardware that people are buying all the devices people are buying our brand names who also want to have their own assistant blow up and In my head I was thinking well We'd have a lot of other kinds of devices that come out that don't have a strategy for this and they're gonna need one They're gonna need a an API a plug-in a third party or something and that didn't exactly happen Instead they adopted other big name stuff in particular Mostly Google but you saw a lot of Amazon integration and a lot of stuff and you also saw some stuff happen with Cortana in a way that that I didn't expect so It's probably just a longer term prediction because I do think at some point They're going to there'll be a third or I keep saying third party It's not what I mean, but there'll be an open source effort. That's so good and so accurate and so wide-ranging That it will make the others look bad and that's why it'll take off and that was kind of the other side of my Didn't like this prediction when it was made and I'm happy to dance on its grave because For this reason not because I don't think that you are right in your general Want but to me the strength of open source Programs in general are when the when there is a clear need there is an answer to Wald garden approaches that are either too complicated too expensive or too clue G to use That's where open source can always be freer simpler or the more direct to the point right now Voice assistants are pretty well liked people in general like their their the voice assistants It's not all that pricey. In fact, Amazon's looking to figure out the cheapest possible way to get one into your house so I think The other side of why it wouldn't be good or why it's unlikely to me to be open source is because that kind of Is expensive it takes a lot of work to continue to make a voice assistant Cutting edge and and that's something that is I think to the weakness of the open source community That's why I what I would like Sarah Lane's Comments to become true is if there really were an opening where someone said hey I'm making this great Assistant and I want it to be truly open not just using opening as a marketing term But like anybody can write to it run things on it Which you know Amazon does have a little bit of that with the skills API. I'll grant them. So does Google But like truly opening it up and allowing it to run on without having to have prior approval that that would be my thing Scott's other prediction was that Microsoft will hit a crossroads where they will have to decide to be all in on Xbox or get out This is the year they decide that Scott said last year though. It could take five years to see it happen He also said well, okay I wish I could go back in time and slightly modify my comment. So it's still worked But they didn't really do that They are doubling down on Xbox, but they're doing it in such a way that it tethers it directly to the PC I think game pass is the best subscription service in gaming right now. Yeah, you heard me say it I'm usually pretty critical of Xbox and what I've been but I think get game passes brilliant It's growing and I think it's gonna keep growing and I think they will they will likely end up with the first really mainstream Premier Netflix for video game pie in the sky Solution if they keep going and that will feed both their Xbox side and Re-invigorate their PC side, which they have let language for years and fall into the hands like people like valve and others So so I am I am now bullish on the future of Microsoft in gaming It is not it somewhat came true and that it's not a hundred percent Xbox Where I was wrong is saying you've either got to go all in or not It turns out you can kind of hybrid this thing and there's a way to do it Marketing conditions are right to support that so so yeah wrong, but feeling good about where they're going Partial credit partial credit. Give me give me a B. B minus. Yeah 30% thank you miss. There we go. I I I award partial credit, but only because it seems like under sachet and Adele, they're always like on on some of Totally vibrating opinion on what Microsoft what what Xbox's role in Microsoft from the moment He came in there were rumors that he didn't get future in it and wanted to spit it off And every day that he doesn't I guess his tacit approval that they have some faith in it So I I agree partial credit Thank you. All right now Jen cutter could not be with us Unfortunately to talk about her predictions from last year and and we hope she's doing well But Roger is going to step in and address her predictions from last year the first one being that the Xbox one X would be the last Xbox unfortunately Microsoft will depending on on which side of the bait you're standing on disappointed or or Encourage you because they mentioned that they were going to they were working on the next next generation of Xbox Xbox Scarlett So the one X being though very last one. No, that that did not come to pass. Yeah, and not only that They've all the confirmed ideas like standalone Xbox devices that would be just streaming devices Boxes that would just be download to this box and play it here No physical disc type solutions possibly a flagship device that would be More traditional, you know put discs in it and have huge capacity and all of that Like I think they've had a decision. I think a meeting happened. I don't this goes back to Justin's comment I don't think he's wrong about Sacha Nadella's Coming into the company and thinking well this may be the one week thing we want to cut out at some point And I think that they have come to an agreement with the direction They're going and I think they've all been okay with it and part of that is a strategy That includes future consoles But maybe not in the way we're used to not giant leaps in technology Not the fastest machine on the market, but the best service is tied to a machine that can run them on the market is what they're aiming for I also think Sony has to aim for that So I think they're right in line with what they need to be in line with but it's definitely not their last Xbox It's definitely not they're like and it's weird because you know there's always been a debate like this Xbox service or is it hardware and You know as as time rolls on it's you know effectively both, right? It's both a living room computer wherever you put the machine but it is also a service as No, I as an Xbox one owner. I get pretty much actually every game I got for the system I got digitally from the Microsoft store. So there there are no discs involved unless I'm watching a movie that I bought like five years ago But it's it's really interesting because for the longest time You know, you know ever since the 360, you know was eclipsed by the Xbox was that you know Everyone had this opinion that Microsoft was very much just wandering the wilderness with you actually like where do you want to go with it? Is it your all-in-one entertainment machine? Is it a video gaming machine? Is it you know, what do you want it to be and I think you know what you guys have been describing is like Microsoft just focusing up Focusing up on what they actually want to do what they want to accomplish With the machine instead of just having what we need to be in this space So let's have a competitor out there in the same way like, you know, zoom was like well You know my apples in this, you know music Music space we need to offer something very similar. So it's just you know, put together product service Yeah, push it out there. See who bites apparently no one or not a lot And you know people thought in the zoom are not a good Yeah squirting their friend and please stop Other prediction Was that Canada would take a stronger stance on net neutrality and you know legally they have a late late last year but earlier this year they They enshrined let me see they make this bigger for everyone in Parliament net neutrality in the telecoms legislation so That part has come to pass. However, as we know with all things it's not the end of the debate and telecom companies both in Canada and outside of it are still pushing to Maybe have some modification of this law and something that the CRTC the the Canadian version of the FCC as Not necessarily dismissed out of hand now as I if I remember Jen was saying as the United States Looks to roll back net neutrality. Canada will make it stronger Sounds like that that happened that part happened But it's it's definitely still a ongoing story. Yeah, it's not but I think she gets credit. Yeah Yeah, no, no, I think that that that is the You know a a full point in my in my in my estimation. Yeah. No, she nailed it. Good job Jen cutter All right, let's move on to my own predictions And and I'll I will I will throw myself on the mercy of the court with this one because we recorded too early Bitcoin was on a on a run a heater. Yeah at the time we recorded I think it was probably around $10,000 per coin and I said Bitcoin's gonna pass $15,000 next year. Well, oh and behold it did pass $15,000 by the end of December So I think it was in fact at $15,000 when the year began However, Sarah, I say I think you were probably pointing towards it. Certainly didn't stay there No, it sure didn't And I know a lot of people who's IRAs have Have have been a part of anyway, we won't Need to earn or there but But yes, you're right. What when you when you made this prediction, I mean it was like, yeah, it's going to get to 15 It's definitely going to and it did Well, I thought it was on a trajectory to eventually hit 15 like I was like, yeah, it's gonna keep going It's gonna hit 15 and might even go farther And it spiked too fast And then of course imploded to you know hitting around $3,000 towards the end of this year and there's even been some allegations now that there was price in manipulation roughly a year ago and when the buy-by-buy phase of Bitcoin was ongoing that has always been one of the things that people have worried about but Certainly if everything, okay Right Yeah, if if the If the idea here was to show that Bitcoin was a robust healthy financial option then That does not seem to be warranting of a point Yeah, it's a letter of the law a letter of the prediction spirit of the prediction sort of I'm into giving you the point though Look, I remember texting you a year ago when when this was happening and I'm like you nailed it dog Yeah, and I was like wow, do I still get it if it happened before the year? So I think you get you get two points Justin Justin gives it to me. All right. No objections from anyone else I feel much better about the next one And by the way predictions, I've been doing prediction results shows for a long time I generally don't get them right. So I'm very pleased with my performance this year a Viable password replacement will be launched by major tech companies and in fact Google launched its Titan key Which is going to be available for consumers and Microsoft announced passwordless accounts both on the Fido standards. So we Actually got launches of both of these things. I didn't predict they would become massively adopted or how successful they would be But they are there and I honestly do think they are going to continue to get uptake and and we're on a slow train To a new way of logging in and authenticating No, a hundred percent. I think you I mean, we're not You know, we're not a hundred percent there But I'm not even sure your prediction was that would be a hundred percent there It was more like we are gonna make big strides here and we did or I say we Some standards made big strides and it's awesome because the stuff that has been described lately in terms of I forgot the name of it The one that Google was doing and they changed the name. Anyway, that one is really cool. Yes. Thank you. I want That and I want it today and I like your prediction. I think Tom should get nine-tenths credit Wait, oh, oh, I only know intense. I know like Great nine out of ten It's just not in every hand on every device Would be I said a viable replacement will be launched. That's all I said Okay, fair enough ten out of ten. You can have your ten I only fighting so hard for it because I feel like this might be the first time I Actually did predict something like there's no hedging like what I said actually happened Don't worry Scott. It's ten now, but it'll be 15 by New Year's and then All right, smarty pants Justin Robert young, let's let's take a look at your predictions from last year Starting with Fox will be bought by Disney Disney will be bought by Apple. Oh so close Yeah, and Wolverine will appear in a Marvel movie now technically Fox has not closed its deal with Disney No, but it is it is all but done at this point. We're just waiting for the clock to run out So we probably would give you that portion of it now I will say that some of the spirit of what I was talking about Is something that is now rumored to have come to pass the reason why I thought that that the rest of Fox would be an acquisition target for Apple is that they continue to want to beef up what they are Their TV service basically they now the rumors that all the Original content that they're going to be creating would be free in the TV app, which is already an aggregator They like live things and one of the things that the Justice Department or I don't know if it's just a part But basically the federal government Mandated that Disney could not have in the Fox acquisition were the regional sports networks that Fox owns, right? Those are now apparently the apple of Amazon's eye But but the idea being that that kind of content would would land with a Silicon Valley company was I think where I was driving that I got a little man If you're if you want to say like oh did I say Disney? I'm at Warner. Oh, did I say Apple? I'm at AT&T. You're in you're in like Flynn. I know I know look go big or go home, and I've apparently decided to go home Yet you have another prediction Wolverine Definitely should appear in a Marvel movie though I mean, you know, I was I was banking on on some kind of like tease little thing to kind of You know show off the Merger, but since it's still not totally Locked down then, you know, I think that's a little bit wish well I'm gonna I'm gonna say partial we give we give Justin partial on this one for for Fox did Did get bought by Disney even though it is not closed yet That that deal I think is acceptable As Also fairly it's a fairly brave prediction at the time a lot of people were poo-poo in it I think I may have thought you were a slightly bit crazy I don't think the negotiations were even started or we didn't know about it This feels like a good strong win in in his It wound up becoming an 11th hour Bidding war situation with Comcast coming in and right by him and and then Disney kind of staying the course Well in fact if Comcast had moved in you you probably would have a lock solid it probably would have closed by now But yeah, there you go The other one you suggested would happen this past year is that a driverless car would be approved and running in Pittsburgh as a test Man, I'm really no more specifics Right if you'd said we'll be running somewhere as a test you'd be in again Which I don't know is that even happening? Yeah Waymo is doing it's driverless cars It does have human drivers on board. Yeah, that was the point that I was trying to make I was okay. I was trying to say that there would be a fully headless Car on the street somewhere. There's some buses on limited routes doing it and Vegas has one. Yeah There's one in Singapore as well in a few other places, but yeah, no, I meant more of the The you know regular a buzzing around although, you know, I'll tell you what that that's another thing that if it weren't for that pesky Death out there in Arizona that might have been further. Yeah, no, sadly That's the case because uber of course doing its tests in Pittsburgh with safety drivers on board Shut down. It's it's it's experiments there and it doesn't look like they're gonna be bringing them back anytime soon really Yeah, and that came after the death in Arizona where you know for a bunch of different reasons You know the worst possible thing in that scenario happened. So so you got partial for one You know partial partial for one and no more from here on out I'm just gonna say somebody's gonna release a computer. Yeah, you can be like Scott and say like a product You'll have to just hear it. That's faster. Yeah faster than the one before. I There's gonna be a brand new phone screen Format that everyone will hate but it's gonna take off like crazy another phone will have the dreaded notch Yeah, we'll be implicated in a hacking scandal A big data breach will stun people. Yeah They're all warming up for tomorrow's prediction. Absolutely a hotel chain you've frequented in the last year Or couldn't avoid frequenting because they own so many hotels that too. Well, Sarah Lane. It's time To go back to you. This was your first return to the prediction show in some time. Let's see how you did Your first prediction Facebook will build its own HQ like app. Now what I'm talking about HQ I'm talking about HQ trivia, which is at a year ago was a very big deal and as many Sort of fun game apps go It has it has waned in viewership Not in the sense that no one's using it anymore But it it has lost a lot of the viewers that I had before however in June in fact June 19th of 2018 Facebook said That they were announcing new ways for creators and publishers to create interactive videos specifically starting with polling for live and on-demand videos as well as Gamification for live videos with these tools Partners can add a range of new interactive features to videos such as polls quiz questions challenges and more it goes on but in in my mind and you know Call me out if you think I'm wrong But I think that this was Facebook's way six months ago of saying well We're not really gonna like actually say that we're taking on the idea of HQ live But we're going to add these features for anybody who Is trying to use Facebook as a platform for a video which of course the company is interested in doing it I mean it sounds like they outperformed your you know instead of just doing an app. They did a whole platform Here's the thing I don't know a lot of people who have taken advantage of this in any sustainable way, which you know would would be Monetary right and I'm I'm sure there are exceptions and I'd love to hear about them But Facebook did clone HQ For this purpose, so I think that my prediction is right I don't know. I don't know. I mean look I think that that your prediction almost certainly would have been a hundred percent true in that Facebook would have went to a Some a production company that currently does games or has done games in the past so they could make Facebook exclusive content That they would utilize things like this You know features like this But the problem is is that they kind of lost a bit of their steam for paying for live Content in in 2018 at least compared you're talking about Facebook Face busy in their steam. Yes. Yeah, and so I think this is these are certainly features that Would allow somebody to do it, but it is not Facebook creating their own app in which these games would live nor is it paying for Like content. Yeah. Yeah. No, you're right. You're right. However I do think that if the market were hotter for this sort of thing Again mid-year. This was June. Yes, then it would have been more of a Straight-up clone. Oh, I think a hundred and fifty percent if they were still handing out money for live content and therefore had Another 2018 version of targets that they wanted to go to and find what's hot and live. Let's pay for that Let's pay for clones. Let's play for other people to do their versions There is zero doubt in my mind that they would have built a very Integrations custom integrations that would have made an HQ experience a very viable on Facebook Unfortunately, I think their appetite for trying to sell advertising on live video didn't quite reach that point Well, what they're doing now is what is Facebook watch? That's that's their new focus. Yeah, Facebook watch where everybody watches the same thing Together is their way of trying to juice that that video That and milk that video money pot Very hard to put ads on live video unless you are there for a very long time It's hard to jam a 30-second ad right when you click on Oh, I want to see what ups. Well, what's up with somebody live right now? And then you miss 30 seconds of it. So you right be an Aquaman thing like man. I don't know that's bad Well, I'm gonna give it to Sarah though. Anybody anybody Partial I think if it's a pie you get most of the pie Because my next prediction is for sure Not Point for Sarah Yeah, because you definitely don't have any pie coming first predicting that Amazon would buy slack. I Really, you know, okay. So again, we all are slack users for a variety of reasons Partially for our own stuff And and for, you know, other channels that we're a part of I I'm a big fan of slack I've actually become a very big fan of discord over the last year and they're not direct competitors They're good in their own ways, but for that reason, I realized that slack is not always the best place to, you know Get a lot of people. Anyway, that is neither here nor there My prediction was that Amazon would buy slack that did not happen In fact, the latest rumor and this is this is actually quite recent Recode actually mentioned that not only slack, but Airbnb were both going to IPO in the Q1 of 2019 and They would be the direct listings meaning that it it it's it's basically It's it's the way that Spotify listed itself, which at the time what was that a year ago now Was um, you know, very sort of confusing to people like oh Spotify is not, you know, not working up with with the banks traditionally blah blah blah whatever slack is a I don't know. It's a it's a it's a company that I Truly thought would be acquired by this time last year and it was not So I'm just gonna go ahead and eat my crow I'll be interested if they do an IPO doing a direct listing makes sense That seems to be the new way to say, you know what? We're not gonna sell to people in advance We're just gonna build on the buzz and go right to the market and take the risk So I'm not surprised if they do it it that that would be the way they do it Microsoft Teams is starting to outpace them though and I feel like slack needs the boost Maybe the reason Amazon didn't end up buying slack is Amazon isn't in the productivity software space Right. They're in the enterprise space, but they're not in the productivity software space and the reason Teams has got such a such a Huge amount of momentum right now is because Microsoft already is in your business With outlook and word and Excel and so they just throw teams in as part of the package boom How would you not call that productivity space though? No, that's what I'm saying Microsoft is in the productivity space Amazon is not Amazon Amazon doesn't have reps calling companies and saying hey Can you get on the Amazon suite of blank unless you're talking about AWS, right? so Microsoft Teams is taking off because The Microsoft Teams being the slack competitor taking off because Microsoft is in the productivity space So it would make more sense for Google to buy slack since hangouts really isn't that But Google doesn't seem to be doing that sort of thing these days Google plus in fact, well, and they're not going out and acquiring companies either so I I feel like slack and Stewart Butterfield probably wants slack to just become its own company and build from there and He doesn't want to sell it to someone else if they can get a successful IPO then you know more power to them I would think otherwise if they don't IPO that they probably would get acquired by somebody, but If it's not Google, I don't know who it is Apple sales force, maybe sales for sales force would be a very interesting Oh, yeah, I would be I could see that Apple doesn't acquire companies like this. Everybody's like I Apple should buy Netflix, you know I would think Apple and I do think it's different than Netflix and by the way considering where Apple is is going The Netflix thing I never thought was nutty beyond the fact that Netflix was too Expensive and and there have always been question It made sense on paper It was just a thing that neither company wanted to do Netflix didn't want to sell and Apple didn't want to buy Yeah, for whatever reason the only thing I would think with slack is Apple is in the productivity space although not quite in the enterprise level productivity. Yeah And and they could say hey look like this is just the way that we want you You and your small teams that all have Mac laptops are all going to communicate with each other They would it would it would cap slacks growth potential, but if they're selling then they're selling Amazon, I feel like Apple buy slack when it's young and unknown and great technology. They can get for cheap That's usually That's not yeah, that's my next prediction We have a show for that but like David for tomorrow Apple there you go, you know, one of the things I love about doing before What other things I love about doing this predictions results show is it really shows you the more things change the more they stay the same HQ does not have the buzz it had Bitcoin does not have the buzz it had last year Xbox everyone was talking about Microsoft's gonna ditch Xbox last year that that has gone away, but at the same time Fox buy and Disney that's Still a current topic driverless cars, you know, and who's gonna get there's still a current topic. That's Disney by Fox Oh, sorry, you've got Disney buying Fox, but you know you get what I mean. Yeah I for a second I said Disney making cars and I'm all in on that Bought by Disney and it's screwed me up. If the cars look like Cute Yeah, great me like there's there's there's these things that are like Laughable now like really no one's talking about Bitcoin surging. It's the opposite But then there's these things that you look as if they haven't aged a day Yeah, I mean look last year at this time the way that the crypto conversation was going it felt like The a new stock market was emerging it was the first time that my My specifically my friends friends that barely care about tech, right? We're talking about cryptocurrency in a way that and a sophistication that I don't hear them talk about many things or there was Seem to be a baseline Excitement even beyond the gold rush of you know, oh, we got to get here early It was like, oh look, there was a belief in this idea and Bitcoin is an idea that very much relies on belief and excitement to succeed and Then all of a sudden it goes away just like that. It was gone HQ similarly it seemed like hey look trivia's been around forever This is the new way you do trivia in a TV a televisionless world and now it's still there It still has his audience, but there's a few less dilly dillies in the chat We know okay, so when you know, we're talking about driverless cars This is something that came to mind Recently and and again when we were talking about like, oh, yeah, doesn't he? Imagine if you will that a driverless car that you're in the back of is Following all the legal rules But do you want the sort of slow and steady in the right lane type of car? Or do you want maybe the you know a little bit more aggressive car still not not legally? Breaking any rules, but how does that fit into? What might be when we're all sitting in the back of you know cars that are driving themselves picking a style of driving you're saying yeah, huh? Oh, I want as fast as as Computer well sure, but like but like yeah like but but I mean what company do you trust to do that? It's kind of an interesting question. Yeah Because a lot of this conversation Tends to get into the realm of sci-fi that I don't think is necessarily on the immediate trajectory of the technology That kind of necessitates this like Hive mind that talks to all the cars so all the cars can move at optimal speed And I don't quite think that we are there yet nor do I think that city infrastructure spending Is going to make such a programmer idea a priority now tech surprises this all and if that becomes something that can Seamlessly communicate between all cars and that's just something that happens over the next five years then you know We will we'll we'll see but until that time I agree with you Sarah All right, I want to do something we haven't done before maybe we should do this more often I'm looking at the 2017 predictions results show So these are predictions from two years ago. These were the 2016 predictions I don't even gonna tell you who they are, but I just think it's interesting One was IOT will market itself on AI and collaboration with other Internet of Thing devices I Happened I mean that doesn't even feel like a prediction anymore. It's like well, of course they do, right, right 2016 prediction was that it that was a prediction made at the end of 2016 for 2017 Another one Adobe will produce a fully featured Photoshop for the iPad That's happening though, it's not in finally happening yeah 2019 I'll get it. So yeah, finally we're getting it Uh, Mariah or variation by the way was it Scott? I was Len actually All right, could just Len yeah Shannon predicted Mariah or variations of it will cause people in industry to take a closer look at Internet of Things products Consumer-focused software to check to see if your Internet of Things products are vulnerable Sort of slow motion is happening where yeah, oh no the idea of we are we are Every minute by minute realizing what a a Bizarre tape together Experience our digital lives are and we are becoming more and more horrified by it So I am I am here for her prediction two years ago and this last one 2017 will be the year Nintendo comes back. I was right. You were totally right. That was you That was Scott's yeah, that was that was your grand opus that is You should you should paint a beautiful inspiring vista of that moment in history and get in your in your house All right done. I know what I'm doing this weekend. Yeah Well, thanks everybody for watching or listening It's it's a lot of fun to go back and look at these We will of course be making our predictions on tomorrow's show and then we'll do a look at those again Next year. Let's go around the table Scott Johnson Thank you for having me on I love doing this and I'm looking forward to whatever 20 19 will hold Hopefully it will match some of the predictions We're gonna make on another episode But if you're interested in following me, just find me at frog pants calm everything I'm doing is there as well as all my daily ramblings on Twitter where you can find me at Scott Johnson Justin Robert Young Great predictions as well fingers crossed for you, buddy Um, besides besides those where can people find all the all the great work that you're up to these days You'd no need to coddle me Lane. I Know I know an L when I need to eat one All right I know we all do Makes fool that's what prediction shows about exactly taking the ill So yeah, Justin are young on Twitter and God knows if I'll be even doing the podcast that I'm doing by the time The next year rolls around so who knows And Sarah Lane, thank you for a full year of Daily Technique show. Oh, Tom. Thank you Um, I know I know it's been a year in a little bit of change And I hope it's a million more years to come Roger Chang Thank you as well for more than a full year of Daily Technique show always a pleasure And most of all thanks to the folks who make this possible We we have a few other revenue sources out there But 98% of our revenue comes from you the person who supports us directly at patreon.com Slash dtns. Thank you for making our year bright Uh, thank you so much. 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