Manufacturers of technology products are predicting a rise in demand in upcoming quarters, particularly in the semiconductor and networking space, which has seen more orders from business IT systems already this year.
For years, many have been predicting the death of Bluetooth, the underachieving technology that served as the slow and ungainly Stephen Baldwin to brother WiFi's Alec.
Predicting a breakthrough in switchgrass-based ethanol technology in 2007, the Bush administration mandated that cellulosic, or plant-cell based, ethanol production for American autos increase to 500 million gallons by 2012 and a staggering 16 billion by 2022.
After correctly predicting last year that FIFA would implement some sort of goal-line technology, he blew it with a suggestion that Arsenal would win a trophy.
Jelly Bean's smarter keyword feature makes text messaging faster by predicting the next word in a sentence, and improved speech-to-text technology and voice technology continues to work even if a data connection is interrupted.