 Because that's not a real one. OK. I'm going to make this available in the Discord backstage. That's a good idea. Hey, W. Scott is one. All right. So I am recording right now, Tom. So whenever you are ready. Three. Sorry, three, two, coming up. Spoiler, everything that will happen in 2020. Welcome to our end of year Daily Tech News show 2020 predictions episode from Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. We are joined by a cast of amazing prognosticators today, starting with Mr. Scott Johnson. How are you feeling about 2020? Pretty good. It's supposed to be that year we get everything, Tom. So I'm hoping my predictions fit into the everything category. That's right. We've been anticipating this for five years now because everything was coming in 2020. Yeah, big year. Very much looking forward. Also joining us, Jen Cutter back on the show. Welcome back, Jen. Hello, it's good to be here. 2020 should be really interesting for gaming. All kinds of gaming. I can't wait to hear your predictions. Shannon Morse also joining us from Threat Wire. How's it going, Shannon? Great. I am so excited to chat about the new decade. And from the Silicast, Allison Sheridan. Hello. Now, I'm figuring I'm going to crash and burn since I did so well in 2019. 2020, I'm looking for zero. All right, you have a record to defend. That's a really good point. All right, well, let's waste no more time. The year is not young. We only have a little bit of 2019 left. So let's get right to the predictions. Sarah Lane, would you do us the honor of starting us off? I will. My first prediction is actually based on a recent D-10-S show where we, and Scott, you were a guest on the show that day, where we unpacked the idea of deep fakes and how much we should be afraid of them, how good they are now, how they work, and how they're going to get a lot better in the future, and if everyone should freak out. And I had mentioned, we didn't really talk about it on the show so much, but I had mentioned to the guys, as we were all prepping for the show, we're going to get to the point where it is so good that somebody's got to take somebody to court because they'll be like, it wasn't me in the video, and the person will say, yeah, it was. And then you're going to have to have a team of experts come in and figure out if that deep fake is really that person or if they're just lying. And so I think 2020 is going to be the year where we see the big first court case on this subject. So the court case won't be about the deep fakes so much necessarily, right? It will be a pivotal part where the court will have to determine whether the video is real or not. Exactly. To determine if that person really did this thing that was unbecoming or perhaps even illegal. Well, there's also a whole new potential of libel cases that could come out of deep fakes as they continue to permeate. So I was thinking about this earlier. If more and more people have their faces put on bodies that are not theirs, doing things they don't want to be seen doing, my expectation would be more people are going to try to go after that in some way. It'll be hard to know who to go after because often this happens in the dark and no one knows who does it. But I think so. But that would not be your prediction, Sarah. Your prediction is that the court will have to determine whether something's real or not. There won't be a, this is a definitely fake and I'm going after the person that made it. No, this is no one knows if this is real or not. We have two sides of the story. We have one side saying, no, this is an actual video proving that they murdered the bird. This is you. And the person saying, no, it isn't. And then a team of experts are gonna have to come in and unpack this video and figure out if there are ways to determine whether or not, who's lying here? Well, I guess it would be really the person in the video. Well, we're gonna have to. We're gonna have to figure this out. This is a good prediction because it's not about how good the deep fake is. It's about having to, someone thinking they can convince a court that it's real when it's not or maybe the person got convinced it was real when it's not, it's about bringing it to a judge and a jury and having them decide. Yeah, and how this evidence gets entered into court and where it all goes. All right, so that's my first prediction. And thank you for saying it's a good one. I've got deep fakes on my mind these days. I don't know, it's one of my things. My second prediction is we're finally going to see a smart display eyeglass product. Some AR display product and people will be surprised and delighted by it. So Google Glass is always thrown out there as the gadget before its time that ultimately did not work. We've got snap spectacles, niche products, too expensive for a lot of people and still not exactly something that a lot of people wanna wear. It's kind of, they're getting their footing but I would not call that a hit and we're on version three at this point and kinda hard to know where the company's going with that. We have rumors that Apple is hard at work on its own version of AR glasses, Apple known for design. There are a lot of mockups that you see on the internet that are all just what people think it might look like and they all look horrible. So I'm not saying that Apple's product would look horrible and I'm not saying that Apple's gonna be the company that does this in 2020 as well but I think we're gonna see something that turns the tides. You think like a product that's good enough that it can. It just becomes something that normal people are wearing. You know, like instead of like, oh yeah, you're the, oh, AR glasses, interesting, what are they like? You know, smart watches were like this a couple years ago. Now it's hard for the course. Yeah, so how do we measure success? Is it like first year Apple watch wearing? Is it AirPod wearing? Like what? Sales volumes? Yeah, I guess probably, yeah. What sales volume does it have to hit to be considered surprising and delighting? To me, to me, at the parallel or the thing you would talk about that sort of like, this is VR and where it is. And you could argue that it's behind some predictions and ahead of others. But I think the day that this becomes like watches or other smart devices that we don't really talk about anymore and they just sort of accepted is when they stop looking like goofy goggles and start looking like you just have a pair of glasses. Well, I think the point that I was trying to make is that we're getting there. We're starting to see companies and sometimes they're products where you're like, what's this company? I don't know, I'm probably not gonna buy these glasses. I don't know this ecosystem all that well, but they don't look that bad. They don't look that weird. I think we could measure it. We could measure it by at least one DTNS listener sees someone in the wild wearing them in a state in the middle of the United States or maybe Jen sees somebody in Canada, right? Not on the East or West Coast. That doesn't count. I think that's already happening. Well, for me, my measure of that would be if people can wear these in public and not get made fun of immediately, because we all remember what the Google Glass people were called when they were out walking about. That would not be publicly accepted. So if this actually did delight people, then you could wear it out and be cool and not laugh that. I like this. I actually had a similar prediction on my mind. It's not one of the predictions I was gonna make that we'd get the first mainstream, successful augmented reality device. So I'm with you, Sarah. I wanna make sure that we can give you credit for it when you, as we know you will be when you're right at the end of the show. Sure, yeah, yeah. I mean, I think you say device. I say that device will be glasses. It also seems like 2020 is a good year for these to happen in a bigger way. And you have a quick one? Yes, I know we're only doing two, but because we're all here, my third is that Baby Yoda will get a plushie and it will become the hottest selling toy of all time. Oh, Sarah Wins, right there. Right there. Where can I get it? I don't know. Yeah, people will still like Baby Yoda in 2020 is another way of phrasing that. Yeah. Yeah, and I guess I would say, you could say, well, there's like Baby Yoda stuff all over the place. It will be some sort of official toy that's like the cool product that kids have to have. Yeah, they have some official Baby Yoda stuff out already, but I guess I haven't seen a plushie yet. Not much. You're calling the new Tickle Me Elmo is Baby Yoda. That's right. Yeah. And he goes, his ears move. Forced Tickle Be Yoda. Yeah, that's my little bonus prediction since we're all here. That's for us. All right, Scott Johnson, let's move to your predictions. Forced Tickles will become a thing. No, that's not my prediction. Don't remind me. I said it. We already got rid of Forced Touch. That's right. Tickle. Oh, no. For a mind's, I don't know, sort of like what Sarah said earlier about AR, I'm going to make a prediction about VR. Since VR is, you know, here, it is a market. It's happening and we're seeing growth in it finally, mostly on the back of what Oculus is doing, in particular, the Quest. I think 2020 is the year they have a smaller, thinner, faster, lighter, Quest 2.0 or Quest 2, or something in that vein that will be even better at the hand tracking they just introduced, that will still tether to PCs if people want to play that way. That it will be a device that will continue to push VR forward in a way that makes a giant dent in that market. Like everybody else will be playing catch-up to whatever the follow-up to the Quest is. And the only thing, my other prediction is the only thing that holds them back will be that Facebook's name is associated with it and that will tick some people off and push them away. But otherwise, the best thing on the market. So your prediction is that we'll get a smaller, faster Quest 2. Because it would be really unlikely if Oculus Market Share declined. That would be the bold prediction to say it's going to decline, because it's been growing pretty steadily. And to say that people will still be mad at Facebook in 2020 seems like a pretty safe prediction too. So I like, but I like this. You've got a solid bedrock here. I'm just patting it out, but honestly, I really do think that they'll follow up with something more. I think that this will force them to do things like address the fact that they've sold devices with promises that they can't keep and the Quest ended up being sort of the smart purchase. In other words, people who bought Rift S's are ticked right now. They're mad because a Quest basically acts like a Rift S now. And it does it without any additional cost other than a new cable to run Thunderbolt 3 from your headset to a USB 3.0 port on your PC. And there are people who are really mad about that because they paid the same amount of money and they don't have the versatility now. People with the go, they're just mad because they bought a go. But in the end, I think that despite how they handle that or how they do things marketing-wise, I think that they'll continue to grow, be strong and that the Quest 2 will be out next year. Jen Cutter, what do you think? I think it's a great prediction. My main points about it are totally sideways to the prediction. It's like, I just want these things to be affordable because I want to play Beat Saber. That's all I want. I know, they're all right now, kind of VR art. They're just Beat Saber devices, seriously. And racing games, but those two things. But Beat Saber is such a killer app and it's really the first killer app I can name for VR, especially in gaming, that it's hard to think of having a VR headset that doesn't play Beat Saber because you would need at least that base experience before you do anything else. So I also hope 2020 has more stuff in store that can maybe challenge that. But yes, you're not wrong. These are Beat Saber playing devices currently. My second prediction is that is a specific one to Sony and their relationship to Microsoft. But in specific, Sony will have a very strong launch for the PS5, but they are going to be forced in 2020 to ramp up their services plans. They need to have better streaming solutions to counteract XCloud and they need to be able to compete better with Microsoft for other services like Game Pass and other things. So the prediction in short is Sony and PlayStation as a brand, despite their leadership role right now, need to look at this next generation and look at it hard because Microsoft's coming with all guns blazing. I think that they're going to release services that rival Microsoft's XCloud for streaming and rival Microsoft's Game Pass for just general accessibility of games across multiple platforms, meaning PC, PlayStation, possibly other platforms, despite being in a leadership position in 2020s of the year they open up because the industry is going to sort of go on without them if they don't. So hopefully that's sort of the case. So your prediction, the party of prediction that we can judge is did they release new versions of services that rival XCloud and Game Pass sounds like? Yes, so for example, and this one, it's a little nebulous, I admit, but when it comes to Game Pass, for example, Game Pass is arguably the best value in gaming and again, it's arguable. So someone could argue it's not, but Sony just doesn't have an answer for it. What Sony's big answer is we have amazing first party titles and their world class and they're the best there are and that's all true, but I don't think it's gonna be enough in this next generation. Ironically, the kinds of services that Microsoft is aiming to serve up and steady to some degree is offering to serve up are the kinds of things we all made fun of them last generation for announcing with Xbox One early on. And it's the reason Sony got a bit of a head start. Everybody ripped on Microsoft for their ideas. It turns out we're kind of moving into that area now in a more natural way, maybe at the right time, but I think Sony has to do more to compete with it. So this will be the year that I think Sony starts to announce big services changes to rival what Microsoft has planned. Yeah. Oh, go ahead. No, I'm just going to give you plots. It just sounds like a good prediction. What were you gonna say? All I was gonna say is my third one that Roger won't keep is just that we can all get permanent tattoos that we can remove just as easily. So they're not really permanent. That's a new technology happening in 2020. So in other words, they don't fade away unless you want them to. Yes. It'll be digital of some kind of digital thing. You'll stick your arm in a machine and it goes, leave you to the tattoo you want. And then six months later, you're like, I'm sick of this design. You go back in, it erases it, put something new, not lasers, not painful. That was gonna be a forecast prediction on current keek, wasn't it? Yeah. I mean, honestly, it could be, but I held it for this. But I, and that one actually is a little closer than people think. I saw a documentary where they were showing a similar. Technology. So I actually think it's possible, but it's also super dumb. But if I'm ever getting a tattoo, this is how it'll happen. All right, Jen Cutter. I imagine that your predictions might be in the gaming realm, might they? They are. I'm actually gonna start with eSports because that's kind of the big thing that I wanna talk about. I was gonna make a joke and say that 2020 is the year that mainstream media finally spells eSports correctly but that would die horrible death on day two. So that is my joke prediction. No, my actual prediction is that 2020 is the year where everyone's, especially investors and sponsors, start deeply questioning their ROI. The shakeout. Yeah, this is a bubble. This can't last. And I think this is the year it all starts happening. It's gonna be a huge contraction, if not a complete blowup. But for what I mean specifically for the people who aren't into eSports, let's say you're running a team. Okay, great. So now you need your franchise slot. So that's $20 million usually. That's before your player salaries. That's before your streaming house. That's before all your kit, all your support staff and all of the travel because you're going all around the world all year long. And then for the sponsors, okay, great. So you are giving these teams the gear. You're like helping subsidizer travel or got the jerseys and everything. So you're putting them in front of all of these streams where there are millions and millions of people watching but what are you getting back? Are you making enough in terms of brand goodwill? Is this worth it to you versus just having a commercial or like teaming up with Razor or any kind of company to just do a different kind of product to just blanket yourself on Twitch and be on everybody's channels instead of the one tiny little eSports area. So this year in 2019, we had Echo Fox end. This year in 2019, we also had Astralisco Public. It's the first eSports team that had an IPO. It only would happen in Denmark, but it still happened. So 2020, I think we're gonna lose a lot of events. We're gonna see teams collapse. We're gonna see these giant events not be maybe as giant as they were in the past when people realized that there's not as much money here that's real as they want it to be. It's just all inflation. I think Jen is 100% right on this, by the way. Just gonna throw a vote behind this prediction. If I've heard a prediction today that I think will come the most true will be the scaling back of eSports and how much money people are willing to spend on it because we got ahead of ourselves. We're too far out, dial it back. There's still potential. There's still growth, but I think we got too quick, too much, which means too much money, which means people are losing money, which means we're gonna see it scale back. I totally... So we need to see events, big events that get canceled, teams consolidating, leagues ending, stuff like that. Yes, like Dota 2, the international, that is still probably gonna break records next year. I'm not worried about those kind of events. I think the Counter-Strike tour will get smaller. I think the Capcom Pro Tour is, they've already kind of announced that it's going to be different in two halves and some things that were majors aren't majors anymore. You're gonna see that kind of slow consolidation and you might just see a league go full-on belly up next year right in the middle and then everyone's screwed. I think it was a good prediction, too. That's a really good prediction, too. Yeah, I do, too. I mean, with social media, you're seeing that with influencers and companies trying to focus more on micro influencers as opposed to major 1 million plus ones because their return on investment is so much better for micros. So maybe even we'll see smaller events start popping up as opposed to these large, large, huge investments. Actually, I think that's the key and I think that's what will drive it further is to bring it back to the community a little bit. Now, don't try to corporatize it immediately and make just four giant companies make it grassroots and it already was, so let it grow that way and do some amazing things that way. Spread your butter a little bit on this bread instead of having it all in the middle. I totally agree with that. Yeah, no one wants their butter all in the middle. Yeah, spread it around. Nobody wants butter in the middle of your bread. Or a veggie bite, yeah. All right, what's prediction number two, Jen? Prediction number two is actually Google Stadia related. I don't like the Stadia. I'm not a fan of it. This is my walking out on a limb prediction here. I think that next year, Google is first of all going to finish the features they promised because they kind of launched with some of them, but not all of them. And I think next year, they're gonna come out with a new feature that they haven't talked about yet. Not at all, it'll be a complete surprise to everybody and it will be a legit new feature, not just a new way to ruin software ownership. It'll be something so good that Microsoft and Sony will want to find a way to copy it and cram it into their future services. And then right before the end of the year, they're gonna drop it completely because they'll forget about it, right? Yeah, it'll go the way of, who was it, Wade? Google Plus. Google Weir. Google Weir. Google Weir. It's a long list of bodies there. Yeah, they have to next year do better because it was really an abysmal launch, what they should have just called it a beta. So I think they can naturally do better next year and it'll be a good prediction that they will. I still worry two, three, four years down the road what Stadia looks like and I'm in no rush to get that service. I think this is a very astute prediction that Google will get Stadia right because I think your rights got, this was a beta, whether they called it that or not. And I don't think they have got the product out there that they wanted to have out. And I think it's super smart to predict that they'll have a surprise feature that will turn everyone's heads. It's just the feature though, like Stadia would not work where I'm at. It works on their campus, but I moved like three blocks away from where I used to live. Where I used to live, I couldn't watch Twitch because if you weren't a partner stream with the quality options, all I saw was a slide show of like sparkles if I was trying to watch Killer Instinct. So it just, it doesn't work in Canada. Stadia would not work right here. I can do this show, I can play Destiny 2 even though I'm paying 120 bucks a month for internet. It's just, it's not a global platform whereas for my PlayStation, I can plug that in and play wherever. I just have to patch carefully. And prediction three is Canada gets nationwide broadband. No. You wish. I want pharmacare first, but I would also be very happy with broadband. Do you have a quick third one? Yeah, we are proposing a new hate speech law where we remove everything off social media within 24 hours when it's reported. There are similar laws around the world and I am predicting we follow none of them and our proposal next year ends up being really stupid. We get laughed at and walk it back and then nothing happens in the course of next year. We'll just table that for another year. All right, so a hate speech 24 hour removal gets walked back by the Canadian government. Got it. That's a very measurable one. We'll be able to tell if that was true or not. All right, Shannon Morris, what's gonna happen in 2020? Okay, so my first prediction, of course, mine are always kind of evolving around and gravitating towards security and privacy as usual. The first one is ransomware will evolve and become harder to protect against. And I think that ransomware will still depend on a large scale on phishing tactics, which they have been using, attackers have been using in the past to gain access to networks are ready to plant ransomware. They use like targeted emails toward employees and hopefully get them to click on links and stuff like that. I think that's going to continue to be a trend, but I also think that we're going to start to see customized ransomware made for specific vectors, which we haven't necessarily seen yet. We've just seen ransomware, which has named something different, but generally all of them work exactly the same, kind of being like floated out to whatever networks they can actually land on and so I think that it's going to evolve to be like implanted specifically for industrial control centers, for example. And because we will see that evolution, it's going to be a lot harder for security professionals to protect against since we will have to basically change our direction and do a lot of reverse engineering on these different ransomware. Yeah, there's a lot of work involved, fileless attacks somewhere in there as part of the phishing scam. So it's harder to get rid of maybe one of the infection vectors. I mean, they're still going to work at the end the way they always work, which is they encrypt your drive and get decrypted, but how they get there could definitely change. I think that's a good possibility. Yeah, so I'm interested to see what happens. I think that it's going to be scary, and I think that ransomware is going to continue to build. We've seen so much of it this past year in 2019. I think we're going to see quite a bit more in 2020 and further down the line, but I definitely think it's going to evolve because right now it's just been like just tons of different ransomware spreading all over the place. My second one is legitimate hacks on connected election systems, like voting machines. Specifically, I'm really focusing on voting machines will be implemented during the election season. And in this case, we will actually have recorded and investigated problems that we can actually focus in on that have actually happened during the election season that will have Leo like law enforcement officers actually investigating into. So I'm not sure if maybe I'm hitting this prediction a little bit early since like the US elections this timeframe doesn't really occur until November of next year. But I think during that time, we're going to start seeing actual information about real voting machines that people are actually using, not just like the DEF CON voting machine village that is all put on standby and is on a includes network, but actual ones that are on like a public network that are being hacked actively by, you know state sponsored attackers or maybe localized attackers. And we will see some investigation into that. They don't have to be on a public network to count for your prediction though, right? Not necessarily. I'm just counting anything that is actually used for the elections. So like results being changed. Yeah, results being changed. Ransomware being put on voting machines is entirely possible or machines being taken over by an attacker who's just scraping all of the data off of them and not actually changing anything. So it could be anything along those lines, but so far all we've seen is we've heard rumors about election machines being used by attackers. And we've seen this occur at DEF CON's voting machine village in an enclosed environment. So we know they can and we also know that a lot of voting machines have not been updated even though the US is trying to regulate this. They have not gotten all of the states on board to update all of the machines yet. So we still have a lot of vulnerable machines out there. And I think that attackers are gonna take advantage of that. That's part of our superpower though is the diversity of the machines. There's every single one seems to be different, all these different systems. Sure, any one of them can be hacked, but you can't take them all at the same time. Yeah, you can't get them all at the same time. I think it's a very important point to repeat what Shannon just said. There have been no attacks on election machines in an election in the United States. And I think a lot of people think that's not true. They think there have been. They confuse stories in their head and they confuse the coverage of DEF CON and think, oh yeah, they've hacked our elections before. It hasn't happened. This would be a huge deal if there was any attack. Less on the results, on the results reporting, that's like defacing a website because the results reporting websites, if the results themselves are still accurate, that causes confusion, it's not good. But if there is an attack on a voting machine, and my guess would probably be an offline machine because it's actually easier to do that. Yeah, it is. I mean, you could stick a USB rubber ducky in an offline machine and be able to scrape the edge. Somebody goes into vote, rubber duckies it. Exactly, like I would not be shocked. And there would be the wake up call that the industry needs to really crack down on the integrity, no matter what party you favor. You want this to be above reproach. And it is dangerously close to not being. And this could be a good thing in a way. If it's just like a single precinct, maybe even a single machine or something like that. If it wakes everybody up to the danger that's out there. Yeah, unfortunately, that distinction because a friend of mine yesterday, well-informed, intelligent friend said, no, I believe they really have changed the results in the past. And technically, we have not seen verifiable proof of evidence and evidence that has happened. So that's why I think that next year is going to be a major thing for voting machines. So I'm going to keep an eye on it because that's going to be crazy for Threat Wire. Don't get gleeful about it. I know. We all want you to be wrong. When Edward Snowden came out about Prism, that was a big thing. And that totally changed everybody's mindset about security around 2013. So maybe we'll see the same thing happen next year. I had a quick third one too. And this one probably won't happen. But I'm kind of hopeful that it does because I'm interested in these products. Folding screen phones will go down in price. And we will see one on the market as little as four, as little as $1,000. I think this is your most probable prediction of the three, honestly. Yeah, because somebody like Oppo or somebody like that is going to get in on this game by the end of next year. And if they can make it $999, your prediction's right. And that's the kind of thing that will catch people's eye. Absolutely. Right now, the cheapest we're seeing is $1,300 or $1,399. I forget the exact price. It's not that far away. Yeah, it's not that far. But they do have to. They have to be an old one that drops to $1,000 from $1,300. That has to be a new one. It has to be a newly released phone. And it has to be a folding screen, not a dual screen, like the LG one that we saw on the market, but an actually folding screen. Very precise. Newly released. I'm adding that to your prediction. All right. So Allison Cheats and asks her amazingly smart audience to help her make her predictions. Did you do that again this year? I did do that again this year. Yeah, they were. These are all locks. These are definitely going to happen. Totally going to happen. All right. My first one is that Amazon is going to get into wearables with a smart watch. And it's going to have the A-Lady built in, of course. Now, my first thought, would they call it a fire watch? And I thought, you know what? That fire, that's not working so good. So it's going to be called the Echo Watch is what I'm thinking. What do you guys think? Fossil, fire watch is a video game I played. I literally played it. It also just sounds, it sounds dangerous. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're watching for something. But the Echo Watch, they've got the Echo Show. So the Echo Watch, you know, sort of kind of goes with that. And I think it's the only thing that doesn't have the A-Lady in it, right? I mean, my cup has A-Lady in it. I'm almost positive. There are definitely watches that don't have the word watch in them. I wonder if the Echo Watch could be called the Echo something else, because I think Echo is probably right. Well, it doesn't have to be called Watch. The Echo Rist. Yeah, Echo Rist is good. Or if they made one just for ladies, just called the Echo Lady. I like it. The Echo Band. The Echo Band. I like the Microsoft Band. I miss that. Echo Band, yeah, that's good. Yeah, but it didn't do so well. So maybe that would be a bad name. But yeah, I'm not hard over on the name, but a watch from Amazon with A-Lady built in. You said originally a wearable. And I think that's a smarter way to phrase it. OK, well, OK, yeah, it was a wearable. It might not be a watch. Yeah, right. All right, what's your number two? Can't have Allison here without an Apple prediction. I predict that Apple is going to come out with a new health feature on the Apple Watch. So I want to I want to bracket how cool it's going to be. It's not going to be as amazing as being able to do blood sugar, which is what we want it all to do, but more useful than like the decibel measurement. So maybe something more in the in the vein of the heart rate monitoring that's gotten us the ability to look for atrial fibrillation, something in that kind of vein, that cool of a pun intended. You're just predicting Apple will come out with a cool new health feature. But better than decibel measurement, that's a health feature, right? I think I think I think I'll be out of your back. We need something more specific. Oh, at least a category. OK, OK, OK. Here you go. Epilepsy. Oh, I'll go for it. All right. Good one. That's good enough for you. Yeah. Yeah. All right. All right. Yeah, blood sugar would be really good. That's a bad to face recently. And I would love it if my watch would go your AC ones up or whatever it's called and you're put that drink down or whatever. I'd like I want to know when it's spiking and when it's not and what's spiking it without having to actually draw blood. I mean, I don't know how it would do it. So this is all up in the air. But yes, I believe they're working on it. Yeah, I mean, I don't think they're going to come out with that in 2020. But obviously, that's where they're trying to go. You don't want to watch right now that you put on and you go out because it keeps poking you. Caesar, Caesar prediction and detection. I think that's a that's a very probable one that they could have. All right. All right. Did you have a quick third one as well? Well, I have one, you know, I got to make sure I get a point for sure. I predict that there will be a conversation on DTS, why you got where you guys are talking about how VR is not really taking off and a guest will or host will say, yeah, but VR is in its early days. So Roger, edit that out of all of our episodes for the coming year. I just laughed. I heard I heard Patrick say it last week and I just could not stop laughing, especially since almost all of you had a VR or AR prediction. Somebody's going to still say that. I can get a guest who can say that. For the right incentive, we can make this happen. Not a problem. But, you know, VR is in its early days. It will be until the day that it's suddenly not in its early days. I believe there's that video we found in the 1980s, where somebody said that, right? Yeah, yeah. Early days can last a long time, you know. On a geologic time scale. All right, I have two predictions. I was going to make a third prediction about encryption and reg tech. Reg tech is where you're like engineering your tech for regulations and how reg tech and encryption the regulation tech would cause companies to take encryption more seriously. But I couldn't think of any measurement for it. So I'm just kind of throwing that one out there. Keep an eye out for reg tech. It's going to be a good big buzzword in 2020. But here's one I think is a little more measurable. The there will become in 2020 a push. And this could be from nonprofits. It could be a push for legislation from from someone within a government for limits on data science. For instance, the GDPR is about data collection. It says you can't collect this data without having this permission and you can only store it for this long. But it doesn't say anything about data processing. It doesn't say anything about what you do with the data you legitimately collected and what you can do to it. So data processing, profiling, model transparency. There is nothing that holds data scientists accountable for the consequences of their work. So I think the logical next step is for people to start pushing for, OK, we've we've limited how they can collect data on us. But even when they have our data, we don't like what they're doing with it. We don't like how what they're finding out. And we want to we want to have rules about what they can find out, even with the data they legitimately collected about us. This is interesting. And it kind of reminds me of the like moral code that doctors and nurses have in its almost setting like scientists to that same kind of level. First, process no harmful data. Yeah, do no harm. Yeah, I like it. Well, and it just seems like the natural outgrowth of of people complaining like, but they're collecting all this data and they shouldn't now settling down and going, well, we had totally fixed that problem. But it's not as bad as it was. But I now see that this company is taking the data that I allowed them to have to to make it easier for me to log in and do things. And and they're making all this money, selling it to insurance companies and it's legal and it's not reducing my privacy. But I don't like that. I don't want my data to support that. It's it's that kind of attitude, I think might be part of this. Where do you want? Where do you want enforcement to come from on that? Do you want that to be a regulatory thing? You want to this? I don't want anything. I'm just predicting. What are you calling? No, I'm saying that the push will begin. And I'm not sure we'll get legislation in 2020, but we'll start to see, you know, the EU committees formed a drafting the idea and the calls for comment come out or maybe like, you know, a public knowledge puts out a position paper that says we need to have a law and data processing. Here's what it could look like. That that's the kind of thing I expect to see in this coming year. Nice. All right. I'm on board. Now, that one's kind of high concept. It's it's it's sort of a social trends prediction. My second one is very specific. Well, it could be more specific, but it's pretty specific. Apple is going to buy a streaming video service. Oh, and everybody thinks it's going to be Netflix. It's not going to be Netflix. Netflix doesn't want to sell. Apple doesn't like to spend that much money on things. They like to buy something that's undervalued. They like to buy something where the people have expertise and they can get it for cheap. And so when I say a streaming video service, I don't mean Hulu, Netflix, those kind of things. I mean, one of those services that does live television that's struggling. So Filo, Fubo, some someone suggested maybe Dizon, DAZN, and Fubo and Dizon are both sports oriented ones. The idea here would be for Apple to provide live programming in Apple TV Plus. Interesting. I thought you made all those names up. Those are actual. Did you just go like start a fake one in to see if you could spot it? Filo, Fubo, Fubo. Yeah, this is a DJ. I mean, is there a limit by like how big this company has to be for it to count in your prediction? Like it's it's a guy in his garage. I mean, if Apple buys it. No, it doesn't. There's no limit on that. I mean, I know that this is only part of your prediction. But I think that the idea that Apple would like to be the source of your live TV programming is a really good one. I and this is not in the category really that you're going in, Tom, but something like Plex, where you can, you know, increasingly be able to digest original programming, get live television in certain cases. If you can if you can configure your media server a certain way. If Apple could somehow take that over because that product is so good already, I'm a Plex user. So I'm biased, of course. But but yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense. And no, it's not going to be Netflix or Disney Plus. No, none of the difference. But it's it's interesting because, I mean, they have precedents for this in the music side. I mean, they bought Beats and then they bought Beats. They rolled in. Yeah. So it makes sense. But the one big thing I would have a question about is the the value of buying them would be what for the content they already have that's original, do you think? Otherwise, it's just, you know, well, Beats is a good example. When they bought Beats, obviously they got the headphones part of it. But the music service had the relationships with the labels and they were able to take that and leverage it into Apple music super fast. And they had some of the technology about how discovery and playlist management and all of that. So I think what they'd be looking for is people who have the expertise to streamline video reliably and make sure that it's accessible and some of those relationships with live video providers that come along with it. Yeah, see, that would be in the middle of this, you said you said live. Do you do you mean only live video streaming services or any video streaming service? I mean live video streaming services like linear cable like so YouTube TV, Sling TV. Those are examples of what I mean. It doesn't mean that everything streamed on it is always live. It just means that there's a live stream of video versus Netflix where you have a bunch of on demand stuff. OK, so if they buy Netflix, you don't win. Yeah, right. If they buy Netflix, I'm wrong. Absolutely. Yeah. OK. Because I think they want to buy a live streaming video service. And I think they want to do that because they want to focus on live events, award shows, sports, etc. And I have been looking at this name for that whole segment and I had no idea that was pronounced the zone. I would like to thank a Canadian listener who pointed out when I was saying Dason and as a subscriber to the zone in Canada, where it is apparently much better than it is here in the US for. Yeah, it's on my PlayStation dashboard. I've never actually clicked it because I didn't know what it was. And now I know what it's all. A bunch of great sports on there. I think there's A.H.L. on there. Oh, that makes it. I have Game Center, so I have all that hockey stuff anyway. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, so there you go. Apple. This would be a good solution, Tom, for you're the loss of your great PlayStation view love that you had. You enjoy it. I replaced that. I'm no longer a PlayStation view subscriber, even though they still have a month left. I replaced it with Hulu and I'm quite happy. Oh, well, there you go. So maybe you're you're good. Maybe Hulu, maybe Disney and their investment in Hulu is just like, ah, that thing's a pain. Disney Plus is our focus now, you guys. Let's sell Hulu off to Apple. I know. I don't see that happening. Not when they have so much invested in Hulu through the Fox stuff and and they have BAM tech. Remember, they they have the technology to provide the streaming back end. A corollary prediction to this could be that Apple buys some streaming video company. I'm not making that prediction, though. I want to know what if they bought HBO Max because they do have a record of working with Warner Brothers on the HBO launch on streaming. I'm just saying now because AT&T feels like HBO Max is the pinnacle of Warner Media, which is the future of its whole company. So I don't see AT&T selling that. Yeah, probably not. Fair enough. All right, how do we feel about 2020? Going to be the best year yet. Yeah, I see it with full focus vision. Twenty twenty vision, you might say. Self driving cars. It's going to be awesome. All kidding aside, there are so many things that have been promised for 2020. And I'm going back to like in 2017, when you hear 2020, you're like, oh, well, you know, maybe that'll happen. Maybe it won't. That's so far away. It's like tomorrow. Now we're now we're really going to see, you know, of 2020 is this this this transitional year that that was promised, you know, in the last five years. Yeah, what my flying cars? Yeah, yeah. Exactly. Where are I? I thought it was interesting that none of us had the like way out there. Usually there's a prediction that's like this is probably too far down the road. But, you know, robots will fix my breakfast and we didn't get any of those this time. We're being realist. We've been burned by previous predictions. I'm like, I can't do that. Allison. That's right. That's right. We're all chasing Allison's dream. I noticed the rules on me are pretty tight now. Yeah, we ganged up on you. I'm sorry about that. That's a, you know, if you come at the king, you best win. So Allison's probably going to win, going to beat us all again. Hey, thank you guys for all hanging out with us today. And thank you to our guest, Scott Johnson. Where can people find more of what you'll be doing in 2020? Well, presumably I'll continue to be doing a lot of it over at frogpants.com. So you can check that out, podcasts, art, all kinds of cool stuff happening. So check that out. And you can always follow me on Twitter at Scott Johnson. And thanks for having us. Happy New Year, Tom. Happy New Year to you. And happy New Year to you, Jen Cutter. Where can people find more of what you do? Well, Jen Muter. Oh, Jen, Jen got muted somehow. I don't, I don't know how, but she is, she is trying to tell us what's happening there. I think you're unmuted now, Jen. All right, that may have been my fault. Sorry about that. Let's see. Yeah, no, Jen Cutter would be the place to find me. And also at Jen Cutter on Twitter and Instagram, because I'm starting a new job in January and I can't wait to talk about it. That's fantastic. Can't wait to hear about it. Hey, Shannon Morris, what are you going to be doing in 2020? Oh, lots of stuff that I can't quite talk about yet. But I'm very, very excited to announce as well, me and Jen are in the same boat, it seems. Well, youtube.com slash Shannon Morris. I'm actually going to be at CES next week. And I am so, so excited. I'm going to be announcing a ton of videos. I'm also going to be working on some giveaways this month. Hopefully that all works out. So definitely subscribe if you're interested in tech reviews and everything from the show floor, as well as, as usual, ThreatWire over at snubz.com slash ThreatWire or youtube.com slash HAK5 as well, where you can learn all about security and privacy, everything you need to know and probably too much of it. Absolutely. Never too much. It's never too much. There's also never too much of podfeat.com. Allison, is that that where people should go to find your stuff? That is the best place to find podcasts with the technology podcast with an ever so slight Apple bias in case you haven't picked up on that a little bit. And you can follow me on Twitter. Absolutely. Do it folks podfeat.com. Sarah, that's it. We did it. We made the predictions. We've spoiled 2020. We did. Well, I mean, we made the predictions. It's sort of like the Seinfeld episode. Can we hold predictions? Because that is the essence of the prediction. But but yeah, yeah, no, this was this was fun. We we wrapped up our predictions from last year with very mixed results. Of course, Allison's the best. But but no, it it has been a good year. It has been a tech heavy year. And I expect nothing less from our next year as well. Well, thanks to everyone for supporting the show. As we say, we cannot do it without you. You make this year possible. One of the reasons we we want to record these special holiday episodes is to thank you for all you do to keep the show going. That's it for Daily Tech News Show 2019. We have a special Best of Good Day Internet episode tomorrow. And we'll see you again next year, January 2nd. Next decade. Our email address is feedback at Daily Tech News Show dot com. Start January 2nd. We'll be back live Monday through Friday for 30 p.m. Eastern 21 30 UTC at our website. Daily Tech News Show dot com slash live happy new year. Happy new year. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. I hope you have enjoyed this program.