Historical 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802596 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753859 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16007988 2017: none? 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10809767 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822723 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994370 2013: none? 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3395201 2011: https://news.ycomb…
Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?
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#72Apple Fitness+ will be their fastest growing service, and Apple Watch Series 7 will have non-invasive glucose monitoring.
A reliable non-invasive glucose monitoring device is going to be revolutionary. That’s essentially a holy grail for diabetes.
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#73Only negativity so something optimistic to talk about: - Vaccine program will mobilize and kick start the economy. Big Time. New restaurants will open up, it will be like a forest fire that wiped out the trees but new vegetation will grow. New business will start up. - Travel is going to be out of control once everyone is vaccinated and cases plummet after herd immunity is reached. - Python will have a great dep mana…
> Globalism 2.0 will put checks and balances for healthier international cooperation.
I'm curious about this one. Who do you think will put the pressure / lead the change? (In terms of organisations or gov groups rather than countries)
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#74Historical 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802596 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18753859 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16007988 2017: none? 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10809767 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822723 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994370 2013: none? 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3395201 2011: https://news.ycomb…
Click the link for 2020 cmd-f 'virus': 0 results Predictions are hard
Even though Corona was already in the news at that time. Oh well, at least we weren't the only ones to get caught of guard.
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#75Only negativity so something optimistic to talk about: - Vaccine program will mobilize and kick start the economy. Big Time. New restaurants will open up, it will be like a forest fire that wiped out the trees but new vegetation will grow. New business will start up. - Travel is going to be out of control once everyone is vaccinated and cases plummet after herd immunity is reached. - Python will have a great dep mana…
> Globalism 2.0 will put checks and balances for healthier international cooperation. I'm curious about this one. Who do you think will put the pressure / lead the change? (In terms of organisations or gov groups rather than countries)
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#76Doordash for weed
Tech companies will close offices and have most employees work from home
Google will finally make a smart watch on par with the Apple wacth
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#772021 will be the year of Linux on the desktop. You heard it here first.
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#78Apple Fitness+ will be their fastest growing service, and Apple Watch Series 7 will have non-invasive glucose monitoring.
If this is a serious prediction, I am sceptical. A number of years back Google tried to develop a non-invasive glucose monitor. The monitor relied on a sensor attached to a contact lens, that measured chemicals in tears. They failed. Measuring glucose without having access to the fluids inside the body is something that I doubt even Apple would be able to accomplish.
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#792021 will be one of the hottest years on record. Wildfires will rampage across the western US in the last half of the year. Oil prices will decline to $30/barrel. The Dow Jones industrial average will break 40K. Interest rates will remain low. Employment levels will be very slow to recover to pre-COVID levels. Tensions between China and USA will increase, but will decrease between USA and Russia.
After experiencing the brutal summer/fires in the Bay Area this last summer, I have decided to hedge my bets on a long life by smoking one cigarette a day. I also cycle 70 miles a a week, so I'm not sure if my plan will work
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#80I predict that we'll see a sharp drop in real estate prices and rents in major cities. They are way beyond reasonable at the moment; my presumption is that the decline of small businesses will open up at lot of space. Given this and the radical shift to work from home, I presume that the cities will attract far less people (especially in high paid jobs) and therefore the apartment searching madness we see right now will hopefully come to an end.
In turn, of course, suburbs will probably rise in value and attractiveness.