But in 30 years, has there been any other _testable_ (currently) predictions?

Not as far as I know, people have been calling string theory dead for a few years for that alone.

I don't think the author had any understanding of the history of SPARC or Oracle (Sun)'s product linup. Here is an informative interview from the useful Sun hardware oriented blog on the subject http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/ http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/innovation/innovator-hetherington-191304.html

If you are enough of a god to fully use it, the Cell is an awesome CPU. You have a simple PPC cpu (I want to say two threads, no out of order, but good theoretical IPC), and 8 processors, each with their own 256KB of memory. Of course, you have to manage those processors and their memory usage, without killing the main memory bus.........not simple or easy, though if you think about it as a extremely CISC vector machine, it may well make sense for scientific computing (stream data several sets, mangle it through the Cell, write it out). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_processor

Just make it so that if the H1B visa holder pays a reasonable fee, say, a prorated $20,000, they can leave the job and get another, keeping the visa. Then companies will have to pay US market rates for people.

But frankly, they should be convertible to a green card (permanent resident), we want to steal all the smart people from other countries, not train them for a few years, then send them home.

Microsoft pushed hard to get people to code to IE6, and to use Active X (security? what security?), resulting in something that is stuck on one version of one browser. It was clear at the time to me that this was a bad idea, frankly, I'm just glad it turned out to be even worse (MS was forced to clean up their act, thus breaking compatibility with IE6).

Wikipedia says they use Cherry switches

http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm

Granted, by default they have stuff done with your right thumb, but I believe the keyboard is fully remapable, so you can fix that. They don't say what kind of switches they use, but they are very clicky, with a nice feel. I have used them for years, and really like them.

I wish I was. While I hate citing Time as a source, I've seen this other places, this is just the first that came up when I went looking.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1967306,00.html

"We have studies that claim up to 90% effectiveness against death from all causes [in inoculated patients compared with the nonvaccinated]. If you were to believe that evidence, you would believe that flu vaccine is effective against death not only from influenza, but also from heart attack, stroke, hypothermia, accidents and all other common causes of death among the elderly. That is quite clearly nonsense."

It sounds like the break though here is in a much cheaper controller, such antenas have been around 50 years (the first nuclear aircraft carrier, Enterprise, had one), and are available for RV & SUV use (big blob on roof, $$$).

Well, there is reason to think the flu vaccine does nothing.

You are far less likely to die of the flu if you get it, but it seems equally effective at preventing accidental death, and all cause mortality, which makes it seem that it is compliance effect (that people who are good about taking what the doc gave them live longer, even if it is a placebo).

Do some reading in the Paleo and low carb communities, there is no data that exercise leads to weight loss (it is good for health reasons, etc, but it will not make you thin). Unless you really want the goal (winning aerobic fitness based events, ie tour de france or just a marathon), high output aerobics seems to be harmful (check out Mark's Daily Apple, he made his living in that world for two decades).

Low output aerobics, occasional max effort work, seems to be what people are made for. The Army has moved from long runs to sprints, a sprinter can do the runs, and you spend less time and fewer injuries than the runner training.

Links:
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/
http://robbwolf.com/
check out who they link to.

Well, I'm disappointed, but it may well make sense if you just have one gear, and thus a much cheaper, lighter gearbox etc. No lower gears, no revers, a larger electric motor than the generator, so you can hit batteries for acceleration, but not drag a big generator around that you almost never need.

Very, very true, I'm just saying that trying to sell such a thing is very much of an uphill push, too many users cannot contribute, and your savings are not all that great, I bet you need to be serving 1000TB+ a month for it to have any chance of making business sense.

That being said, I do think it makes sense, and ought to be used more, for instance, add some locality features, it would help everyone at the end of small pipes (Australia, NZ, etc), cut down bandwidth usage, boost performance on cable, etc.

Well, we do, sort of, it's called a CDN, like Akamai.

A start up I know of started out using peer to peer, but it was too much grief to get people to download a plug in, and then get it to set up port forwarding through their firewall, and at the price of CDNs these days, you are just not saving enough money for it to be worth while.

Now, when we get IPv6, and HTML5, perhaps it will be a different game (no NAT in IPv6, no need).

In the case of a game, you already have downloaded stuff, and can convince a fair chunk of your users to set it up.

Twitter uses it to push patches to their servers in 12 seconds instead of 10 min.

So it is part of the future.