Entries about cultural prophecies, such as the claim that by the year 2020 we will all have implanted ID chips.

Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, and the man known to readers of The Register as Captain Cyborg, makes some rash predictions about life in 2020.

Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, and the man known to readers of The Register as Captain Cyborg, makes some more rash predictions about life in 2020.

Cory Ondrejka (who is Cory Linden in Second Life) posted a series of predictions for 2007 to Terra Nova. I have extracted some of them here.

In August 2005, Jeff Hawkins, the inventor of the Palm Pilot and the Treo smartphone, claimed that Palm had a “secret third business”. Since then he has single-handedly redefined neuroscience through some personal research that culminated in a book On Information and the founding of a new company Numenta. Now he has given an interview to PalmAddicts, in which he ties these together, and promises a big announcement sometime this year.

The Ryanair boss, Michael O’Leary, is planning to launch a transatlantic airline offering fares to the US from as little as $12 (£6.10), it emerged today.

There is an article in today’s online Guardian that is entitled “Olympics can help UK rebrand itself”, says new cultural chief. I am surprised that people can still say this kind of stuff with a straight face.

Research firm Screen Digest forecasts that mobile TV will put gaming and music in the shade. It predicted that there will be 140 million global subscribers generating revenue of £3.1bn by 2011.

In his letter to me today, Ed Colligan claimed that “Jeff Hawkins and I still believe that the market category defined by Foleo has enormous potential”.