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Speaker 1: tech Stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hello everyone,
Speaker 1: welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Poulette, and
Speaker 1: I am an editor at how stuff works dot com.
Speaker 1: Sitting across from me, someone who is not an editor,
Speaker 1: but he is a senior writer, is Jonathan Strickland. When
Speaker 1: the earth was still flat, and clouds made of fire,
Speaker 1: and mountains stretched up to the sky sometimes higher. I
Speaker 1: think I've actually used that quote before. You might have,
Speaker 1: but anyway, Hey, we're talking about stuff we already said before. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's true. Today we are recording our follow up on
Speaker 1: our predictions for twenty eleven. And before we get into
Speaker 1: what we predicted for the year eleven and how we
Speaker 1: did how our predictions did, we should mention that we're
Speaker 1: recording this in early early early December in order for
Speaker 1: us to have enough episodes to get through the end
Speaker 1: of the year. So, uh, some of these predictions that
Speaker 1: have not come true may still come true. Your mileage
Speaker 1: may vary. I'm covering our bases. Okay, that's good. Did
Speaker 1: you fix the broken scoreboard? Problem that we had. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: we no longer the whole checks and uh and exes
Speaker 1: have been fixed. I've moved on to a totally different
Speaker 1: score keeping systems. Yeah, so we're comfortable with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't have to worry. I know that there was
Speaker 1: some there was some controversy or controversy, uh from a
Speaker 1: previous scorecard where apparently all of my predictions got checks
Speaker 1: and all of Chris's predictions got xs no matter what
Speaker 1: the content. I am happy to say that will not
Speaker 1: be the case this year. Alright then, alright, so, uh
Speaker 1: so let's you want to start with them one of
Speaker 1: yours here, I've got, I've got I've got them all
Speaker 1: laid out into mine and yours. Is that how you
Speaker 1: have it as well? Yes, that is so how I
Speaker 1: have it set up. And I have to have to
Speaker 1: own up to picking some I felt were pretty easy
Speaker 1: because that whole checks and excess thing through me, and
Speaker 1: I figured I wanted at least one or two that
Speaker 1: I figured I could actually, like you just nail it. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: speaking of which, I said that the iPad two would
Speaker 1: get a would get a camera, forward facing camera and
Speaker 1: a faster processor. And I got the faster processor thing, right,
Speaker 1: and I got well, I sort of got the camera thing.
Speaker 1: It's got a couple of cameras right right. You you
Speaker 1: originally said it was just gonna be the one camera
Speaker 1: and it'd be forward facing. So that was based on
Speaker 1: the fact that you know, I have an iPad one
Speaker 1: and it's got this little if you have if you
Speaker 1: see an iPad one, you could see on the opposite
Speaker 1: end of the front of it from one of the
Speaker 1: home button is there's sort of a little Yeah, if
Speaker 1: you hold it the right light, you could see the
Speaker 1: sort of a little cut out where the camera might
Speaker 1: have been had they chosen to throw it in there. Right. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe they didn't have the miniaturization just right where they
Speaker 1: could fit all the components in, or maybe it's just
Speaker 1: you know, problems or whatever. Yeah, but anyway, yeah, so,
Speaker 1: but but you've got that more right than wrong. So
Speaker 1: you get uh, let me check my score sheet here, Okay,
Speaker 1: page seventy three. You get one one and a half
Speaker 1: tablets for that that prediction tablets. That's that's what says here. Okay, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So I said that the iPhone would move to Verizon,
Speaker 1: but not until twelve and you said it was going
Speaker 1: to come out in twenty eleven, and you got that right,
Speaker 1: And what it did in fact moved to right. In fact,
Speaker 1: it moved to Sprint as well. In UM, I said
Speaker 1: that they were going to announce that the iPhone was
Speaker 1: moving to Verizon, but I did not think it was
Speaker 1: going to move to twelve And at the time, I
Speaker 1: believe that that was because of the rumored agreement between
Speaker 1: Apple and a T and tight that it was going
Speaker 1: to be a five year agreement, which means that it
Speaker 1: wouldn't have expired until But whatever the cases, it actually
Speaker 1: did move to Verizon. So whereas I got the announced
Speaker 1: part right, I got the date totally wrong. You got it.
Speaker 1: Let me check here, Um I have to cross reference. Oh,
Speaker 1: according to this, I get a smart foe, but not
Speaker 1: be any because um I didn't get it, all right,
Speaker 1: So I it's so we got one half tablets to
Speaker 1: a smart foe, all right, Okay, then let's move back
Speaker 1: to one of yours. All right. I predicted that the
Speaker 1: Google Chrome OS would get an underwhelming response, and yeah,
Speaker 1: that's I mean it was. People were excited when Google
Speaker 1: Chrome officially debuted back in the summer, and a lot
Speaker 1: of people did try and sign up to get a
Speaker 1: Chrome book, but ultimately I think, I mean, I haven't
Speaker 1: heard anything about chromebooks since the Io event. Really. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just not one of those things that's been in
Speaker 1: the news. I mean, we know they're out there and
Speaker 1: people are developing for them, but it's just not it's
Speaker 1: not taking any like, it's not hitting the news cycle
Speaker 1: at all. Wish I had predicted Wave would would would go,
Speaker 1: would recede, would go out to low time, but but
Speaker 1: I didn't. Well, you get sort of similar because they
Speaker 1: got a lot of hype right out of the gate
Speaker 1: and then they just sort of you know, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well according to this, because of that prediction, in the
Speaker 1: fact that you got it right, you get three shiny
Speaker 1: hubcaps caps. Yeah, so three shiny hubcaps for that prediction.
Speaker 1: Moving back to one of mine, I said that a
Speaker 1: cloud competing would move to the next level with more
Speaker 1: web based services. We saw a lot of web based
Speaker 1: services premier this year. So let's let's just a lot
Speaker 1: of them are our media related, like I Cloud, Google Music,
Speaker 1: Amazon Cloud Player. We also had some players that already
Speaker 1: existed in the out there on the web kind of
Speaker 1: make their way finally over to the United States, Spotify
Speaker 1: being a big example. Um, and of course there's they're
Speaker 1: the other ones that were here already, mog and r
Speaker 1: d O yep. So I think I think it's a
Speaker 1: to say that that's that's true. And now we probably
Speaker 1: didn't see as many moves in the enterprise space as
Speaker 1: could have been. Right, We didn't see that many companies
Speaker 1: moved to all cloud based services, although I know there
Speaker 1: are a few out there that have adopted the Google
Speaker 1: ecosystem as their corporate ecosystem, so that they use Google
Speaker 1: Docs and Gmail and everything as their corporate email. So
Speaker 1: there have been some. It's just not been huge, but
Speaker 1: we've seen it a lot in the consumer space. So
Speaker 1: for that prediction, I get rain drops keep falling on
Speaker 1: my head, which is gonna make the rest of this
Speaker 1: episode a little damp. You know, I'm I'm not sure
Speaker 1: I understand exactly how you came up with a scoring system.
Speaker 1: The problem is really going to be totaling it at
Speaker 1: the end. But let's just keep going, shall we. All Right,
Speaker 1: all right, well, I uh I believe that. Uh well,
Speaker 1: let's actually go uh in in you know, uh continuum. Here,
Speaker 1: I'm going to skip ahead on your list that you
Speaker 1: put together, and and point out that I did say
Speaker 1: that Spotify would show up here, yes, and uh, and
Speaker 1: I didn't think so. I didn't think so I said
Speaker 1: it would not. Well I at the time when you
Speaker 1: made the prediction, and I think it was an off
Speaker 1: the cuff prediction, if I recall correctly. Yeah, that was.
Speaker 1: That was That felt like going out on a lamb.
Speaker 1: I remember, Yeah, And I I just said, you know,
Speaker 1: I said, well, let's make this interesting. I'll say it
Speaker 1: won't and that way, no matter what, one of us
Speaker 1: will be right. And in that respect, I was right.
Speaker 1: But you you got that, you got that correct. Spotify did,
Speaker 1: in fact debut in the United States. I was a
Speaker 1: little I was a little skeptical because there had been
Speaker 1: at the time when we made the podcast of the Predictions,
Speaker 1: there had been a lot of news about how Spotify
Speaker 1: had been having some problems making agreements with or reaching
Speaker 1: agreements with major labels. Yeah, and that was the thing
Speaker 1: that was holding it back. They had wanted to debut
Speaker 1: a lot earlier than they had the opportunity to say,
Speaker 1: and I just saw that that resistance holding out even
Speaker 1: more than uh, than it actually did. So yeah, you
Speaker 1: got that right. And let's say, according to this you
Speaker 1: get the black spot from Treasure Island. So it seems
Speaker 1: kind of bad, you know. I'm sorry, it's just it's
Speaker 1: some of these awards are a little less prestigious and
Speaker 1: and glamorous than others. But that's the Spotify Award, right there,
Speaker 1: Spotify Award. Okay, alright, So I said that there was
Speaker 1: gonna be a dramatic increase in cyber warfare in twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: and I think it's safe to say that there was
Speaker 1: a greater focus on cyber warfare um, and we saw
Speaker 1: several stories pop up about cyber warfare. Uh. And there
Speaker 1: was the recent news that came out where, uh, we
Speaker 1: had accusations that state sponsored hacking had been taking place
Speaker 1: over in Europe. Yeah. Uh, Plus there was the news
Speaker 1: about trying to hack into various systems in uh Iran.
Speaker 1: There was a allegations that Chinese systems were trying to
Speaker 1: hack into various security systems around the world. And then
Speaker 1: there was stuckx net, which was um a piece of
Speaker 1: malware that people said was specifically aimed at taking out
Speaker 1: Iran's nuclear infrastructure because of what it would do is
Speaker 1: it would change the the RPMs at which a various
Speaker 1: equipment would rotate, and it would cause like a centrifuge,
Speaker 1: and it would cause potentially it would cause a massive meltdown.
Speaker 1: Well maybe not a meltdown, but it would cause a
Speaker 1: massive accident failure. But in in the case of stux Net,
Speaker 1: it looks like all of those were detected early enough
Speaker 1: to to um head off a major malfunction. One of
Speaker 1: the things we've talked about when we talk about cyber attacks,
Speaker 1: though of any kind, really is that it's difficult sometimes
Speaker 1: to pinpoint, especially from people who know what they're doing,
Speaker 1: difficult to pinpoint exactly who's behind an attack. So it
Speaker 1: could be uh, state sponsored, it could not be, and
Speaker 1: we might never know without you know, having something to
Speaker 1: back it up, having a proof behind it. And so
Speaker 1: it's kind of difficult to say whether some of these
Speaker 1: were state sponsored or not because of the way they
Speaker 1: appear to have happened. There are plenty of stories about
Speaker 1: it's anonymous and lull SEC attacking various targets. So I
Speaker 1: think I got this, uh fairly, I think this. I
Speaker 1: think it's fair to give me this one. So apparently,
Speaker 1: according to this, I get in return for that correct
Speaker 1: prediction about an increase in cyber war, I get high
Speaker 1: anxiety on DVD. Okay, all right, So, uh let's see
Speaker 1: the year the tablet. Um that was one of yours
Speaker 1: and uh I said that, um, the Android OS would
Speaker 1: launch a new era of tablets. Um. I feel like
Speaker 1: in one respect, the I mean, the tablet market really
Speaker 1: did take off. Um, but still the Android. I thought
Speaker 1: the release of Android would do for tablets what it
Speaker 1: did for smart smartphones, where it outnumbers the sales of
Speaker 1: iOS based devices that's Apple's operating system for its own devices,
Speaker 1: and not so much out selling iOS. The iPad is
Speaker 1: still a dominant player in the market. Although there there
Speaker 1: are some quite good Android based tablets, there are also
Speaker 1: some quite terrible. Yeah, and and we also saw the
Speaker 1: debut of things like the Amazon Kindle Fire, which is
Speaker 1: is burning up the charts right now as we record
Speaker 1: this Fire, I see what you did. Also, Barnes and
Speaker 1: Noble came out with its own Nook tablet that did
Speaker 1: quite well. A lot of enthusiasts really enjoy that. Again,
Speaker 1: it's early December, so it's kind of hard to tell.
Speaker 1: Those are fairly new. The BlackBerry playbook didn't do as well,
Speaker 1: but um but it's also out there. And then there's
Speaker 1: the second place compcause second place to the iPad, which
Speaker 1: had its own We even devoted our own episode to
Speaker 1: this uh HPS lovely uh webOS based device, which you know,
Speaker 1: the webo s of course said bye bye to everybody,
Speaker 1: although you never know. I mean that whole situation is
Speaker 1: so I'm going to talk about that in our we
Speaker 1: haven't recorded our predictions, I'm going to talk about that one.
Speaker 1: But yeah, as a matter of fact, as a Palm
Speaker 1: decided to discontinue it, they put it on massive discount
Speaker 1: and now holds the second place behind the eye because
Speaker 1: if you don't remember, the touch pad went on sale
Speaker 1: for like wasn't it, Yeah, and people just gobbled them
Speaker 1: up because everyone's like, a hundred dollar tablet, that's exactly
Speaker 1: what I want. I don't care what uperating system it
Speaker 1: has or what it can or can't do. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's probably gonna be some buyer's remorse in the future
Speaker 1: from some of those folks. But it sort of depends
Speaker 1: on what HP does with the whether or not whether
Speaker 1: or not it truly is continued to be supported in
Speaker 1: some fashion or not, it could all be a huge ploy. Yeah. Anyhow,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I think I don't know. I get some
Speaker 1: credit there. I didn't. I didn't get the android part
Speaker 1: quite right. Right, According to to my notes here, this
Speaker 1: means that you get a red herring. So um, it's
Speaker 1: I think. I guess I'll have to see how this
Speaker 1: all totally. It's in a tank in the back, so
Speaker 1: I'll bring it out after the show, unless, of course,
Speaker 1: it disappeared, in which case will have herring loss. That's true, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it would be a dramatic loss and herring. Speaking of tablets,
Speaker 1: your next prediction was sort of tablet related. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: said that laptop sales would depth but they wouldn't totally
Speaker 1: crash due to uh, tablets, And that's pretty much true.
Speaker 1: I mean there was laptop sales took a pretty big hit,
Speaker 1: but desktop sales have taken a hit due to laptops. Yeah,
Speaker 1: laptops still haven't been completely replaced yet, and I don't
Speaker 1: think they ever will be totally replaced, just like I
Speaker 1: don't think desktops will ever be totally replaced. I think
Speaker 1: I think maybe our our focus will be will show
Speaker 1: to mobile devices effect it already has but it will
Speaker 1: continue to move in that direction, and that laptops and
Speaker 1: desktops will be used more for very specific but limited functions. Um,
Speaker 1: I think that will continue, but I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: see them disappearing entirely. So yeah, I get, Um, you
Speaker 1: know what I got for this one? What's that? I
Speaker 1: got the tildy key from my old computer. That's what
Speaker 1: I got for that one. Then yeah, um, how long
Speaker 1: has that been missing? Anyway? About two and a half years,
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, got a hole in it. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you know how that happened? We uh, you know, we
Speaker 1: talked about on our podcast Google Plus this year, which
Speaker 1: of course none of us predicted, and uh in Facebook,
Speaker 1: but you know what get we what we didn't talk
Speaker 1: about so much? What's my Space? I wonder why that happened? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I made a prediction that Fox was gonna unload. Yeah,
Speaker 1: technically I should say, and this is my fault because
Speaker 1: I wrote down the notes this way, but technically we
Speaker 1: should say news Corps, the parent company. Yeah, so I'm
Speaker 1: just reading it. So but yeah, news Corp. No, No,
Speaker 1: I was the one who wrote it. So it's you know,
Speaker 1: and I don't blame you at all that news Corps sold.
Speaker 1: You said that news Core would sell my Space for
Speaker 1: a dollar fifty and some coupon books. You were so
Speaker 1: close thirty five million dollars. Yeah, and they spent what
Speaker 1: five eight million when they bought it something like that.
Speaker 1: It's that's crazy, you know. Every time I right after
Speaker 1: that happened, every time I passed by those billboards advertising
Speaker 1: how many millions you could win if you if you
Speaker 1: won the lottery, I thought, that's funny. I could have
Speaker 1: bought my my Space if I won the lottery after
Speaker 1: taxes even Yeah, I mean that that I would have
Speaker 1: done that. You nailed it, though, I mean, and that
Speaker 1: was one of those those predictions that it sounds like
Speaker 1: it's really kind of like, if you weren't if you're
Speaker 1: not really thinking about too hard, if you're not putting
Speaker 1: yourself back in the mind frame we were in twenty
Speaker 1: you might think, well, that's an easy prediction to make,
Speaker 1: except for the fact that news Corp had held onto
Speaker 1: my Space. I mean, my Space was hadn't been relevant
Speaker 1: for a couple of years. I was actually thinking there
Speaker 1: was more of a possibility in terms of that. I
Speaker 1: was thinking that was possible that Newscore might just bury
Speaker 1: my space right and right next to man. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I eat it. But no, they and you said they'd
Speaker 1: sell it. They did, so you get, oh, oh, it
Speaker 1: looks like it's our most valuable prize. Yet you get
Speaker 1: Rupert Murdock's big toenail. You know, if you believe in
Speaker 1: like sympathetic magic, you can work some mean mojo. Now,
Speaker 1: so hey, you just hold on to that. So alright, So,
Speaker 1: speaking of sales, Yeah, I said that eBay would sell
Speaker 1: off Skype. Now the eagle eared listeners out there, we're
Speaker 1: all eager to point out that, um hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: he may technically sold Skype in two thousand nine, So
Speaker 1: making that a two thousand prediction for two thousand eleven,
Speaker 1: my it seem a little ridiculous, except that eBay had
Speaker 1: retained thirty five of Skype. They were they weren't the
Speaker 1: majority owner in Skype anymore, but they still owned thirty
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what I was going for when
Speaker 1: I made the prediction, although I didn't make that clear
Speaker 1: in the prediction, so it just sounded ridiculous. But in fact,
Speaker 1: in two thousand eleven, Microsoft bought Skype. Now I think
Speaker 1: I wish I had predicted that Microsoft was going to
Speaker 1: be the company to do this, because then it would
Speaker 1: be a really phenomenal prediction, right, but it but I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't foresee it being Microsoft. I just figured someone
Speaker 1: would buy it. And Microsoft bought it for eight point
Speaker 1: five billion dollars. That's a pretty big number. And because
Speaker 1: I got this one pretty much, right, I get a
Speaker 1: chordless phone. Wow, that's that's pretty nice. Yeah, but there's
Speaker 1: no base station. It's just the chordless phone. All right,
Speaker 1: So you know you have more than than I do
Speaker 1: because I was chicken last year, So why don't we
Speaker 1: do another one of Okay? So I also said that
Speaker 1: inleven we would have a true test of the four
Speaker 1: G technologies that would roll out and things like y
Speaker 1: max and lt E. And I know before you guys
Speaker 1: right in, I know that y max is not truly
Speaker 1: four G. Uh. In fact, the definition of four G
Speaker 1: now is almost meaningless. We need to do an episode
Speaker 1: specifically about what is two G, three G, four G
Speaker 1: and and why are they designated that way? And why
Speaker 1: is it so complicated? Yeah, I mean the big thing
Speaker 1: is a speed issue, because I mean even T mobile marketing,
Speaker 1: it's upgraded three G h s P A plus technology.
Speaker 1: They can depending on the market and the technology, like
Speaker 1: in the specific hardware you're using, H s P A
Speaker 1: plus can outpace LTE, so probably won't by the time
Speaker 1: lt matures. Right, So that the T mobile's argument was
Speaker 1: that it was a four G speed, so you might
Speaker 1: as well call it four a G because if it's
Speaker 1: if if, if we're using the g's as shorthand, then
Speaker 1: we're just saying that this this device is works faster
Speaker 1: than that device, in which case, you know, there's an
Speaker 1: G three G network and the l T E is
Speaker 1: sort of a one G four G networks. It really,
Speaker 1: it just got more confusing. I don't think that we
Speaker 1: really saw a battle there. So but LTE one, you're
Speaker 1: right about that. I did say the l T E
Speaker 1: would win, and that is true. Lt is is by
Speaker 1: far the dominant UH four G technology that's out there
Speaker 1: right now. In fact, I think that within another year
Speaker 1: this is going into a prediction almost but within another
Speaker 1: year it'll probably even more evident, although we may be seeing,
Speaker 1: you know, rumors of the next emerging technology come out.
Speaker 1: By the time we finally settle on this emerging technology,
Speaker 1: of course, that's the way the way tech works. So um,
Speaker 1: I get the letter G. Okay, yeah, at least until
Speaker 1: it comes along because he eats everything except for Z
Speaker 1: and uh you know, I actually I had predicted that
Speaker 1: a T and T would roll out it's for G
Speaker 1: network by the end of the year, and it it
Speaker 1: actually has, which is an LTE network. I think we
Speaker 1: piggyback those in the predictions episode. So do I get
Speaker 1: a G two for for that one? Actually you said
Speaker 1: it was a T and T and uh, strangely enough,
Speaker 1: I think this might have been a typo. But you
Speaker 1: get an ad at you know. They they're terrible as
Speaker 1: far as gas mileage goes. Yeah, and let me tell
Speaker 1: you when I was bringing that sucker into the office
Speaker 1: this morning, Uh, traffic on four hundred was a nightmare. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But the nice thing is you can you know you're
Speaker 1: already there, and that that you don't really have to
Speaker 1: go very far to get up to the floor that
Speaker 1: we're on. No, that's true. I just kind of popped
Speaker 1: open the cockpit and and then just made a quick
Speaker 1: jump over to our our patio and that was fine.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right, So let's see, let me
Speaker 1: do another one. Of mine. I said that, Um oh,
Speaker 1: here's one that was very excited about. Yes, I predicted
Speaker 1: that a new version of the Nintendo WE would debut
Speaker 1: at E three and you was right right. I can't
Speaker 1: believe it. Uh yeah, that WE You was you? Was?
Speaker 1: You was exactly right? Yes We you Ui Ui? Um
Speaker 1: it sounds like a European ambulance. Yeah. I had said
Speaker 1: that it would probably be the HD version of the WE,
Speaker 1: but it's a little bit more than that. Because this
Speaker 1: is the WE. You also has a new kind of
Speaker 1: controller that has its own touch screen interface embedded in
Speaker 1: the controller itself. So it's kind of like combining the ELT,
Speaker 1: the the Nintendo DS sort of technology with the WE
Speaker 1: console system and putting it all together so that you have, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a game going on on the screen and
Speaker 1: then occasionally might have many games pop up on your controller,
Speaker 1: which we've seen in previous console systems, and we've talked
Speaker 1: about that before in the past, but this will be
Speaker 1: the most kind of mature version of that technology that
Speaker 1: we've seen so far. So yeah, I got that right.
Speaker 1: I was really amazed, And unfortunately it looks like I
Speaker 1: won some WE. So let's just move on, all right, Hey,
Speaker 1: actually that that was a c S. That was actually
Speaker 1: that was at E three, right, Yeah, but you didn't
Speaker 1: go to C E S. And I think you're going
Speaker 1: again next year. Oh yes, I've already got it all
Speaker 1: planned out. So why don't you tell us about your
Speaker 1: C E S predictions? Okay, So because that we found
Speaker 1: that out pretty quickly. It's in January. So I predicted yeah,
Speaker 1: because when we recorded this last year, it was right
Speaker 1: around the same time as early December, and I was
Speaker 1: predicting what would happen in early January, and so surprise,
Speaker 1: surprise was right for most of it. I said that
Speaker 1: there would be a lot of three D tech around,
Speaker 1: and there were was quite a bit, and there has
Speaker 1: been for a few years. Actually, three D tech probably
Speaker 1: didn't get quite the same amount of attention that it
Speaker 1: did the year before, but it was still pretty much everywhere,
Speaker 1: and you even had companies, especially like Sony, and I
Speaker 1: think even Panasonic might have also had one. I know
Speaker 1: a couple of different companies had the glasses free three
Speaker 1: D televisions on this playing, which we've talked about before
Speaker 1: and about how you know, there are problems with glasses
Speaker 1: free three D tech, mostly stemming from the fact that
Speaker 1: if you are not in a the right position in
Speaker 1: front of the television, you're going to get a very blurry,
Speaker 1: disorienting experience. It's not very pleasant, but you know, there's
Speaker 1: still advances being made with that technology. So I also
Speaker 1: said there'll probably be more wireless data streaming between devices,
Speaker 1: and they're kind of was, but it wasn't in the
Speaker 1: way that I had predicted. I thought it was going
Speaker 1: to be more like high data transfers, so things like
Speaker 1: a Blu Ray player and a television set having a
Speaker 1: wireless like a wide gig connection between the two where
Speaker 1: you could watch content directly on your TV from your
Speaker 1: Blu Ray without having to have a cable to connect them.
Speaker 1: But really, what the wireless data streaming stuff, the way
Speaker 1: it played out at CS this is more about ecosystems.
Speaker 1: It was more about having a device or a collection
Speaker 1: of devices and being able to port and experience from
Speaker 1: one device to the next in a very seamless way.
Speaker 1: So in the ultimate example, you might be watching a
Speaker 1: video on your on your smartphone as you're walking in
Speaker 1: the door, and then you transfer that video seamlessly to
Speaker 1: your television so you can watch the rest of it
Speaker 1: on TV and it picks up right where you left
Speaker 1: off on the smartphone. That kind of idea, and we
Speaker 1: haven't really reached that point yet, but there were a
Speaker 1: lot of the like kind of the foundation for that
Speaker 1: technology was on display quite a bit at CES. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the cloud, the cloud seems to have acquired that more
Speaker 1: than your your home. So you know, if you're using
Speaker 1: a service, a streaming movie service that you subscribe to
Speaker 1: over the internet, you can pose it in one thing
Speaker 1: and you have your account in the other room and
Speaker 1: seen it advertise more in that capacity than I have
Speaker 1: in the You buy this thing and stick in your
Speaker 1: house and it makes this happen. Yeah, essentially in order
Speaker 1: for the second the version that I saw at CS,
Speaker 1: for order for that version to really play out, you
Speaker 1: would pretty much have to buy all of your electronics
Speaker 1: from a single source, like a single manufacturer for that
Speaker 1: to work, because they all have their own proprietary ways
Speaker 1: of developing this this uh system. Yeah, I wonder why
Speaker 1: that is. Whereas the version you're talking about is much
Speaker 1: more consumer friendly, and that it is if it's cloud based,
Speaker 1: as long as whatever it is you're buying has the
Speaker 1: capacity to tap into that that cloud system then you're fine.
Speaker 1: So you could have devices from multiple manufacturers and have
Speaker 1: them seamlessly interact, because what they're doing is they're pulling
Speaker 1: stuff from the cloud, and that's where the coordination is
Speaker 1: coming from, not through the devices themselves. But that's not
Speaker 1: the way it was presented at c E s UM.
Speaker 1: I also said that there'd be a lot more green tech,
Speaker 1: and there was UM and uh so yeah for this one,
Speaker 1: I get UM too. Hurt feet apparently. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you cashed in on that one a long time ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll be doing it again soon. Yea. Yeah, speaking of
Speaker 1: green tech, Yeah, you kind of seem to think that
Speaker 1: green green would sort of go away. I I what
Speaker 1: I thought was that the big flashy green tech UM developments,
Speaker 1: things like like these these crazy power plants or whatever. Uh,
Speaker 1: big flashy technologies would sort of fade away in comparison
Speaker 1: to more modest but but achievable green technologies. So in
Speaker 1: other words, you know, you wouldn't see something that was
Speaker 1: going to supposedly eliminate our dependence upon fossil fuels. UM
Speaker 1: like these these big long reach projects that cost a
Speaker 1: lot of money and take will take a lot of
Speaker 1: time to develop. What we would see a lot more
Speaker 1: investment in things like this power chord will automatically shut
Speaker 1: off and not allow your devices to draw vampire power.
Speaker 1: That kind of stuff. It's not not terribly exciting or sexy,
Speaker 1: but it does make a difference, and that, in fact,
Speaker 1: is pretty much how played out. Um. In fact, I
Speaker 1: would argue that in some ways, green technology is kind
Speaker 1: of the buzz has kind of died a little bit.
Speaker 1: You don't. You don't hear about it as much as
Speaker 1: you did, unless, of course, it relates to Celindra. There
Speaker 1: are some exceptions. That's more about the controversy of funding
Speaker 1: a company that that was not doing so hot with
Speaker 1: government money. Or you might hear about it about a
Speaker 1: car that gets in a collision in three days later
Speaker 1: bursts into flames because the battery, the electric battery inside
Speaker 1: of it was damaged, but it takes a while for
Speaker 1: the damage to actually result in a catastrophic failure. There's
Speaker 1: that news too. Yep. So uh for this, I get
Speaker 1: a piece of green felt that was from the same
Speaker 1: bolt of cloth where they made kermit. Hey, it's not easy,
Speaker 1: that's it. That's a pretty cool prize. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: bungled this next one of mine, but Jonathan got it right.
Speaker 1: Um I said that to what we had been talking about,
Speaker 1: that giant speaking of power, energy sucking stuff. Apple had
Speaker 1: been building this giant data center in North Carolina, and
Speaker 1: we had been speculating, or many of the media had
Speaker 1: been about what they were actually going to do with
Speaker 1: that thing. Um well, it's actually still kind of unclear.
Speaker 1: But um I thought that Apple was going to launch
Speaker 1: its own streaming media music service. And no, no, I didn't. No,
Speaker 1: I Cloud as many things, but it's not really a
Speaker 1: streaming music service. Yeah, and I think that's what what's
Speaker 1: in that center is iCloud. It's supporting i Cloud, but
Speaker 1: it's not yeah eye Cloud. Now, well, it sort of
Speaker 1: depends on how you look at it, but I don't
Speaker 1: think of it as a streaming music service like uh,
Speaker 1: you know last Fm or Pandora and the radio side.
Speaker 1: I think of it like a Lotify. It's more like
Speaker 1: a more like a locker sty style. However, they do
Speaker 1: have for the paying subscribers the music match service, which
Speaker 1: identify eyes the stuff that you got on your your
Speaker 1: computer and you don't have to upload your music. You
Speaker 1: you can say okay, well you got it there don't
Speaker 1: worry about it. As long as iTunes has that song
Speaker 1: in its database, you have a copy of it, you
Speaker 1: can listen to it reasonably nice bit rate too. Yeah yeah, Actually,
Speaker 1: in some cases it will be a better bit rate
Speaker 1: than the song you might have on your system, depending
Speaker 1: on Let's say, if you had a c D and
Speaker 1: you ripped music from that CD and you were, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to conserve space, so you ripped it at a
Speaker 1: low bit rate. The bit rate if if iTunes can
Speaker 1: match the song, and you are an iTunes match customer,
Speaker 1: then you will the one that will appear in your
Speaker 1: iTunes account, your iCloud account will actually be at a
Speaker 1: higher bit rate, possibly than the one the one that
Speaker 1: was on your machine. Yeah, so that's kind of nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you got this one right. It's not technically a
Speaker 1: streaming music service, so according to this you even get
Speaker 1: prizes when things aren't right. So, uh, this one is
Speaker 1: a uh it's a little fried apple pie from McDonald's
Speaker 1: in a bag that was left in this studio at
Speaker 1: our twenty ten Predictions episode, which is not good because
Speaker 1: they've been baked for twenty years now, so you're kind
Speaker 1: of gonna need to um, probably dispose of that in
Speaker 1: the most secure vessel that we have in this office,
Speaker 1: which I believe is Josh Clark. Well, speaking of apples anything, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of late, since we've been talking
Speaker 1: for about thirty minutes now, but it's kind of late.
Speaker 1: But I'm starting to get a little skeptical of this
Speaker 1: scoring system. Um, but yeah, speaking of apples, the next
Speaker 1: prediction came true sort of. Oh, the accepted it didn't
Speaker 1: where I said light peak would debut, we did, but
Speaker 1: it it wasn't light peak, well it was. It was
Speaker 1: light Peak. It was just called Thunderbolt, and it didn't
Speaker 1: use light it used copper. How else and every other way,
Speaker 1: that prediction was completely right. Um, yeah, I said that
Speaker 1: light peak would debut inven and and all right. To
Speaker 1: be fair, the very first generation of light Peak, even
Speaker 1: back when it was just called light Peak, was still
Speaker 1: going to be copper based. It was not going to
Speaker 1: be until it moved a little bit beyond that where
Speaker 1: it was going to go to the actual fiber optic
Speaker 1: lines where it was going to use light. And this,
Speaker 1: in case you don't know, it's the technology that allows
Speaker 1: very fast data transfer speed between devices and it can
Speaker 1: be any sort of device that that you know can
Speaker 1: have the sort of port on. It's very similar to
Speaker 1: USB technology, or at least that's the purpose of it
Speaker 1: is very much the same as USB technology, except that, uh,
Speaker 1: light peak, when it's just going to be fiber optics,
Speaker 1: if there's no copper wire and there will not be
Speaker 1: able to power a device as well as transferred data.
Speaker 1: USB s can. USB s can provide power. Right. So
Speaker 1: in fact, my my phone right now is plugged in
Speaker 1: via USB cord to my computer, which means that the
Speaker 1: batteries not being drained because it's it's pulling power from
Speaker 1: the computer itself. Light Peak would not work that way
Speaker 1: because if it were just the fiber optics, now, if
Speaker 1: they paired it with copper wire, then yes, you could
Speaker 1: carry electricity across the copper wire while the the fiber
Speaker 1: optics carried the data. Well, the very first generation of
Speaker 1: light peak was just copper wire. They weren't including the
Speaker 1: fiber optics, and that did appear in products. In twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: it appeared exclusively in Apple products and it was renamed Thunderbolt.
Speaker 1: But it was the same technology. It's the same thing.
Speaker 1: So because I got this right, more right than not right,
Speaker 1: even though there were a lot of kind of cheating
Speaker 1: around the fact of what light Peak was and how
Speaker 1: it debuted. I think what you meant and what they
Speaker 1: meant were two different things. I think you should get
Speaker 1: credit for. Yeah, so I get my award. Is I
Speaker 1: get a light but it's over at the Frankenstein Place,
Speaker 1: so you have to pick it up after the show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you did say that we would be using discs less
Speaker 1: I did. I said that we that digital distribution would
Speaker 1: become a much bigger thing in an eleven that it
Speaker 1: had in previous years. And we've seen that. We've seen
Speaker 1: mac os ten Lion goes ten Lion, We've seen uh
Speaker 1: beta builds of Windows eight. We've seen and I think
Speaker 1: when Microsoft is going to go to primarily digital distribution,
Speaker 1: when when Windows eight comes out? Yeah, and you can
Speaker 1: you can buy games on the various game consoles through
Speaker 1: their online stores and download directly to the console, as
Speaker 1: opposed to going out and buying a disc, Steam, Steam
Speaker 1: and other huge games for the PC. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: um I for this. I get a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: zeros and ones. That's what I got for those YEA
Speaker 1: and a little bit in the back. Um. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: next one is a little hard to quantify that I
Speaker 1: that I'm predicted. Uh. I said that we're going to
Speaker 1: be more investments into, uh the alternatives to rare earth metals,
Speaker 1: which are hard. They're they're plentiful, but they're hard to
Speaker 1: find in large amounts in one place. Um and you know,
Speaker 1: therefore they are somewhat expensive. China sort of has the
Speaker 1: market cornered right at the moment, and they're starting to
Speaker 1: use more for their own devices. So I figured that
Speaker 1: more people would would be looking for alternatives to those.
Speaker 1: I haven't really read a whole lot about that. Um,
Speaker 1: so I'm thinking that I I think I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: that I'm thinking that I think that I think that
Speaker 1: maybe I was wrong. See, Yeah, this one's uh uh yeah,
Speaker 1: this was hard to hear. A lot of this was
Speaker 1: a hard one to research, right because I mean it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's unless you're hard to find info on you unless
Speaker 1: you're reading very detailed reports. Um. Yeah, we didn't hear
Speaker 1: much about this, and as far as the rare earth
Speaker 1: metal crisis is still going on, so uh So, unfortunately
Speaker 1: because of this, I have to you were talking about
Speaker 1: alternatives too. Rare metals. Uh so I've got and um
Speaker 1: the best of Limp Biscuit album for you Alternative metal.
Speaker 1: There you shouldn't have, I know, really well you shouldn't have.
Speaker 1: You can put that next year, apple Pie. Uh so
Speaker 1: you know we've got a new PlayStation portable coming out.
Speaker 1: Yeah I said that. I said I that in eleven
Speaker 1: we'd see the PlayStation phone launch and the experien Play launched.
Speaker 1: That was the PlayStation phone. It was it was, It wasn't.
Speaker 1: It wasn't branded that. It wasn't branded as a PlayStation
Speaker 1: Well it kind of was. Well, I mean it had
Speaker 1: a slide out section, which is what I said it
Speaker 1: would have, with a little game pad on it, which
Speaker 1: is what That's exactly what I said. Uh, and it's
Speaker 1: it was called the Experience Play. It even went on
Speaker 1: sale for a hundred bucks. So, um, I got that one.
Speaker 1: I got that one totally right, I got a hedgehog.
Speaker 1: I'm squinting what that's right. There wasn't PlayStation phone. It's
Speaker 1: the Experience Play. Look it up. Okay, it's uh, let's see,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't called it anyway. Do you want me
Speaker 1: to do one more? Since that way it'll kind of
Speaker 1: even this out. Uh, well, I think I think your
Speaker 1: last one should be the last one we talk about here. No, no,
Speaker 1: I think your last one should be the last one
Speaker 1: we talk about. That's true, so I'll do another one. Uh.
Speaker 1: So I had also said that color ink e readers
Speaker 1: would launch in uh and that didn't happen. Instead of
Speaker 1: color e Inc. We saw the e reader companies go
Speaker 1: towards a more tablet design. Wha, They're using lc D displays,
Speaker 1: not e ink displays for that, So that was wrong.
Speaker 1: I did not get that right. I mean, uh, the
Speaker 1: I don't know if there was like a hold up
Speaker 1: on the technology or if it was just they figured
Speaker 1: that the tablet, the tablet experience would be a superior
Speaker 1: experience to ink, or if the people who wanted color
Speaker 1: really didn't care so much about things like battery life
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Yeah, I think that's that's a
Speaker 1: big part of it. Color et Inc. Does exist. Actually,
Speaker 1: it's been out well, I mean it it's existed for
Speaker 1: some time now, not in a long long time, but
Speaker 1: you know, it was in existence when we had that
Speaker 1: conversation Asian. The problem is it doesn't show nearly as
Speaker 1: many colors, and they're not nearly as bright as um
Speaker 1: you know, an l an L E D display or
Speaker 1: an l C D display. So the thing is you're
Speaker 1: you're getting more vibrant colors, but at the cost of
Speaker 1: battery life on these tablet type displays. And I think
Speaker 1: people sort of expect, especially for the things that they're
Speaker 1: saying for the new generation of tablets where they're going
Speaker 1: to have even more high definition displays. I think that
Speaker 1: may uh you know, relegate color eat inc. To a
Speaker 1: very small set of devices in the future. So but
Speaker 1: I thought they were coming out to Yeah, yeah, So
Speaker 1: that one was a miss. Let me do one more
Speaker 1: on mine in that way, when we alternate, it should
Speaker 1: turn out so that your last ones are the last one.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah, and then this one you were right on. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I said that there we would start seeing near fields
Speaker 1: communication systems show up in smartphones and ding. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: started popping up, not not at the level that I
Speaker 1: was hoping for, but it's it has started to emerge.
Speaker 1: And that's the technology that allows you to make payment
Speaker 1: transfers just by swiping your phone near uh a station
Speaker 1: like a payment station. And Google Wallet debut. Google Wallet
Speaker 1: debut and added a lot of that functionality into uh,
Speaker 1: managing that kind of system. So on your end, so
Speaker 1: you would you what you would do is you would
Speaker 1: have to have a particular kind of credit card for
Speaker 1: Google Wallet to tie into this system, and then Google
Speaker 1: Wallet would manage your account and would also let you
Speaker 1: subscribe to things like coupon deals and and rewards deals
Speaker 1: and would apply those every time you went to purchase stuff.
Speaker 1: So that way, if you had a coupon for something,
Speaker 1: it would automatically get applied when you bought that thing.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't have to remember it. It would be in
Speaker 1: there in your phone already, which was great. Uh. And
Speaker 1: for that I get an electromagnetic field around me at
Speaker 1: all times, so, um, my computer is no longer are
Speaker 1: really displaying things properly? But other than that, it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: Where your fair to day cage? Um? So uh, I
Speaker 1: predicted that hd TV prices would stagnate. You said there
Speaker 1: wouldn't be any more dramatic drops in price that they
Speaker 1: had pretty much. You know, they might creep lower, but
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be You wouldn't see a huge like it's crazy.
Speaker 1: You can get this hd TV screen for two hundred bucks. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know I think, based on my own personal
Speaker 1: research since I bought an HDTV that uh that that's
Speaker 1: pretty accurate. Um, you know, I I think that, Uh,
Speaker 1: I think there is probably a greater diversity. You see
Speaker 1: a lot more manufacturers with you know, sort of a
Speaker 1: cheap model and a nicer model. Um, but the nicer
Speaker 1: ones have stayed about the same price that I saw
Speaker 1: them in. Yeah. And because you got that right, I
Speaker 1: decided that would necessitate a reward that was high definition
Speaker 1: but low in price. So I got you this HD
Speaker 1: DVD player. Oh, thanks, You're welcome. That was one of
Speaker 1: our very first podcasts. Uh. Next, um, we had I
Speaker 1: had the prediction that Duke Knewcombe Forever would launch INN
Speaker 1: and Chris, you agreed, and I agreed with you, and
Speaker 1: we were right, and so many people are so sorry
Speaker 1: that we were right. Yeah. Yeah. It was one of
Speaker 1: those games where again, like for those who don't know,
Speaker 1: it was what thirteen years in the making, um, and
Speaker 1: it had been delayed numerous times, mostly due to things
Speaker 1: like the the lead project manager in charge of the
Speaker 1: game would look at the game and decide that the
Speaker 1: the physics engine or the graphics engine was too out
Speaker 1: of date and that they needed to redesign the game
Speaker 1: for a new engine, and then every yeah, and they
Speaker 1: would scrap everything and start over, and then by the
Speaker 1: time that would be ready to debut, they'd see another
Speaker 1: new system that was even better, which would necessitate ripping
Speaker 1: it all apart and starting over again. And part of
Speaker 1: this is because when Duke Newcome three D first came out,
Speaker 1: it was it came out right at the right time.
Speaker 1: You know, it was taking advantage of technology and and
Speaker 1: using it at its best for that time, right like,
Speaker 1: it was the perfect timing for that game to come
Speaker 1: out on the on the systems that it did, because um,
Speaker 1: it looked very sophisticated compared to other games. It was
Speaker 1: state of the art, and they wanted to try and
Speaker 1: recapture that. But the problem with that is that a
Speaker 1: lot of that ends up just being luck. It's not
Speaker 1: just you know, and you can't really plan for it
Speaker 1: because designing a game and building a game and releasing
Speaker 1: it takes time, and sometimes within that time frame, technology
Speaker 1: has moved along while you've been developing, and especially since
Speaker 1: technology is developing faster and faster, it's just future proofing
Speaker 1: a project like that is really tough to do. It's
Speaker 1: sort of like writing a vampire book for the market
Speaker 1: now now that everyone is tired of the vampire genre
Speaker 1: sort of. You know, you'd have to know what's going
Speaker 1: to be big next, and happened to hit it right
Speaker 1: at the right time, Zombies. So uh it did launch.
Speaker 1: The reviews were almost universally negative or at the very
Speaker 1: at the very best most the some of the best
Speaker 1: reviews I read, like the most positive reviews just called
Speaker 1: it mediocre. So I didn't see anyone say that it
Speaker 1: was a good game. Hasn't really burned up the charts either. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I didn't purchase it because I mean, I had
Speaker 1: heard enough things where I thought that maybe I just
Speaker 1: I would prefer to remember Duke from back in the
Speaker 1: days when I, uh I played the game the first game,
Speaker 1: the Duke NUKEMB three D, not the first Duke Nukem
Speaker 1: game because those were side scrollers, but the first first
Speaker 1: person shooter Duke Nukem game. But yeah, so I got
Speaker 1: that one right. So because of that, I get an
Speaker 1: enormous set of weights which I can't move unless I
Speaker 1: have them in the ad at and unfortunately that's yours,
Speaker 1: not mine. I was going to suggest that actually, and finally,
Speaker 1: one of my predictions that I'm so happy about because
Speaker 1: I got it wrong last time, Jonathan would get a
Speaker 1: new computer, new work computer by the end of the year.
Speaker 1: So this is actually I sort of got it right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he sort of got it right because it's new to me,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't new out of the box. Not new
Speaker 1: out of the box. It is a gently used gentle
Speaker 1: it was you didn't gently gently use the last one,
Speaker 1: which is why it had Problemly, Hey, that was just
Speaker 1: just because the keys wouldn't work. That wasn't because I
Speaker 1: was pounding on it or anything. That again would be
Speaker 1: Josh Clark. Yeah, it's our resident loud type of right. Yeah, no, he'sack.
Speaker 1: So the yeah, you got it kind of right, because
Speaker 1: I did get a new computer. It wasn't you. It
Speaker 1: wasn't brand new, but it was new to me. So
Speaker 1: because you got that one right, you get my old computer.
Speaker 1: Oh goody, I have a door that needs propping open it.
Speaker 1: You know, if you want, I'll even lend you the
Speaker 1: till leaky since you're lending me the ad at Hey, okay,
Speaker 1: that's a wait. So so what is the score? You've
Speaker 1: got this complex scoring system, right, so I have I
Speaker 1: have totaled our our predictions. It's a little weird because
Speaker 1: I made I made more predictions than you did, so
Speaker 1: that kind of throws things off. But according to my calculations,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, your predictions scored a
Speaker 1: Sega dreamcast, My predictions scored. It looks like it's, um well,
Speaker 1: it looks like it's a World Pool Bath. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how these compare directly. Uh, but um, I'm sure
Speaker 1: I'll figure it out by the time we do this
Speaker 1: next year. All right, Okay, so yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: went really well. Um, I hope that. Uh, I feel
Speaker 1: like I won. Yeah, I guess maybe. I mean, we
Speaker 1: don't actually get the Sega Dreamcast of the World Pool
Speaker 1: Pool Bath. That's just our score, right, I see, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, I honestly don't know where to
Speaker 1: go from there. In fact, now it seems like this
Speaker 1: whole set of rules that I came up with it
Speaker 1: was just a colossal waste of time. And I just
Speaker 1: found out I got a ticket for an improperly parked
Speaker 1: at at Yeah. Sorry, not much it costs to pay
Speaker 1: off a ticket. I couldn't fit it into the parking deck. No,
Speaker 1: and now the parking deck is collapsed. Well, that's also
Speaker 1: not good. So let's just wrap this up that I think, actually,
Speaker 1: all being said, a lot of our predictions did come true.
Speaker 1: We didn't have as many huge misses this year as
Speaker 1: we have then years passed, which just means we're gonna harder. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna try harder for twelve predictions. But also there
Speaker 1: were a lot of big news stories that we did
Speaker 1: not predict at all and uh, and we're going to
Speaker 1: do an entire episode about the year in review, like
Speaker 1: what happened in eleven and uh and that will cover
Speaker 1: some of the stories we've talked about here, but also
Speaker 1: a lot of stories that that we just did not
Speaker 1: foresee at all. And I hope you guys will enjoy that.
Speaker 1: This is going to be the last few episodes for eleven.
Speaker 1: So thank you guys for listening to us for yet
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