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* AR / ubiquitous computing will be available, but still niche and primarily used for commercial purposes. Most people will still use a mobile-phone style device.

* Autonomous tax fleets will be common in cities, but most personal vehicles will still be manually operated (alongside improved level-3 technologies like autopilot and super cruise)

* Google's business will still be dominated by ads, with cloud revenue making up the rest

* Facebook will still be the dominant social media company in the US, although Facebook the product may become niche

* >10 chronic diseases will have been cured using gene therapies

* General-purpose CPUs will have <5x performance/price gain by 2020. Specialized hardware will be used widely.

* Crypto-currencies will be seen as a hilarious 2010s bubble; effectively no global commerce will be transacted through them



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