Nonsense. You can never have enough options.

"still years away from practical consumer applications"

I read this as "still years away from BS Rambus patents from the mid 90's to expire"

Yet another option is the Hackberry, which is a few dollars more but has wifi built in.

This is just the nature of intelligence, it is just data compression. We parse the incoming data by fitting it to an internal model built up over time and try to optimize the compression by changing the model (learning) or changing the data (action). Small variations to the model (novelty) are inherently interesting as they provide the model-update mechanics something to work on. When the data is overly compressed we get artifacts like optical illusions, ghosts, cargo cult etc

I get the feeling you've never been to Tokyo.

Embrace, extend and extinguish.

Dreams

I thought they were going to do a 'Thelma and Louise' with the Google Maps car.

Obviously the magic smoke, although not released suddenly, does gradually leech out of the components leading to loss of performance over time.

Six billion cell phone subscriptions
22,910 new brain tumor cases in USA in 2012 out of 300M people or 0.008% of the population.

So practically everybody on the planet old enough to use one has a cellphone, but practically nobody on the planet gets a brain tumor.

Just in time for the 25th anniversary of Black Monday crash, where the Dow lost 22% in one day.

It has a name - apophenia. We unconsciously fit the predictions to the present and thus give them more credence than they deserve.

I'd settle for a cheap and easy male contraception pill. If that came on the global market soon then I think the other 5 problems you mention would disappear within 25 years.

I'm sure I read somewhere that lighning cables are active, i.e. they have circuitry, chips etc, rather than just being copper cable. Same here? (would explain the price a bit I guess)

Some candy-sweet milk to go with your weird coloured honey.