3×20: According To The Prophecy

Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we present our predictions for 2021! Stuart: [00:11:11] Remote work starts to hollow out cities and as a result, three major cities see population drops (or the populations drop more than they already were) [00:17:20] Social media sites band together to avoid fake […]

Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which we present our predictions for 2021!

Stuart:

[00:11:11] Remote work starts to hollow out cities and as a result, three major cities see population drops (or the populations drop more than they already were)
[00:17:20] Social media sites band together to avoid fake news (and government regulation of what they do) with some sort of shared “credibility checker”
[00:23:25] Amazon buy Zoom
[00:25:10] Bonuses: somebody buys Canonical; at least one of us has not been vaccinated; Jono continues to buy Apple stuff


Jeremy:

[00:31:30] Jeff Bezos will become the richest American who has ever lived (he tops around $340b)
[00:33:10] Google will make their largest acquisition in the history of the company
[00:37:35] Bitcoin price will go below $5,000 or above $55,000
[00:39:45] Facebook will lose 15%-20% of their active user count
[00:41:40] Bonuses: Amazon builds a publicly-available general-purpose search engine; a security breach larger than Solarwinds will be discovered and will materially impact the position of a major cloud provider or public tech company


Jono:

[00:45:55] Sony will release the second version of the PSVR headset
[00:49:25] A COVID “vaccine passport” will be required for at least three major airlines and five major countries
[00:54:50] Donald Trump’s Twitter account will be disabled at least twice but will not be banned [editor’s note! this has happened once already, in between us recording this show and us releasing it!]
[00:56:25] Zoom will start build a complete remote-working offering (the “Sharepointisation” of Zoom, as christened by Jeremy) and acquire at least one major remote-working company
[01:01:25] Bonuses: Facebook Spaces will still be shit (even though it has been shut down since 2019, so maybe Facebook Horizon will be shit); Canonical will not get acquired (!)

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News music: Long Live Blind Joe by Robbero, used with attribution.

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