Show Notes: Predictions

• Both wars will run out of steam and end, officially or unofficially.

• There will be insurrections in Iran.

• Neither the Dodgers, nor the Celtics, nor the Chiefs will repeat.

• Electric car requirements and limits on ICEs will be lifted or eased.

• Retinal scanning and fingerprints will allow many to circumvent TSA.

• Attempts to copyright and/or trademark AI composites of text and images will eventually reach the Supreme Court.

• A betting scandal will rock professional sports.

• As China’s economy weakens it will engage in more limited military actions against Taiwan.

• Universities will face a perfect storm: AI will enable cheating and plagiarism, students and parents will revolt against huge tuitions, government forgiveness of tuition debt will end, there will be attempts to fire tenured professors who teach radical and biased political views, and large cuts will have to be made. The biggest threat: Remote learning which will dramatically lower tuition and enable a greater choice of institutions.

• As the population ages and the Millennials rise in business, the country becomes more conservative and centrist in its views and voting.

• There will be more intensive recruiting and higher pay for police officers.

• Two more members of Congress will be indicted for corruption.

• The Taylor Swift phenomenon will begin to wane.

• The largest contribution to population growth in the US will be from legal immigrants.

• Hacking will accelerate, and will include all kinds of organizations. The government will grant immunity to convicted hackers to help them combat other hackers.

• The smart Democrats will realize that it wasn’t that “their message didn’t get out,” but rather that most people didn’t like the message.

• Not a prediction, but a wish: Term limits for all of Congress so we can finally end the incestuous power grabbing that has undermined progress for the people.

• Happy New Year.