Every time I do a personality test I end up on the intuitive side of things, not on the sensing side. The MBTIs the former-big-5-consultant that I am had to take were always filing me under “imaginative and conceptual”, not “practical and organized”. So I tend to feel things without really being able to explain why. In the past I would wait until the image would stop being blurred, and write about it after a long maturation process.

But I am out of time these days, and after all it’s fun, so here are the things I think I think (but can’t really tell you why):

1. Celebrity will soon be perceived as a disease. Young stars will receive government funded psychological treatment, and governments will have to create services dedicated to teach celebs how to deal with things like the loss of privacy or control of their identity.
2. Google rank will become a political argument. Instead of saying “this is why I am right” political leaders will say “type ‘Iraq war’ in google and look at how my speech comes up first”. Google will be perceived as the ultimate organizer of relevance, and as nobody can control it it will provide the needed crowdibility (that’s a new word I just made up) politicians have lost. If you are on top of google you are right, and you are right because the population put you there.
3. Strikes will follow wars and happen online. It makes so much sense. Web War I proved that you can impair a government with online activities, and unions will need to stop bothering clients who have more and more tools to hit them back and influence public opinion with blogs and cell phone cameras.
4. Work will be an socially accepted reason for divorce. “I am leaving you for my job”. Work is becoming so intensive and personal, private and professional lives are merging so much, so more and more people will find the level of socialization they need at work, a much easier to control and therefore tempting environment.
5. Our whole economic system will be reinvented around the correct assumption that people do not create for money but for fun. That day copyright and intellectual property will stop making sense, and the 99% of the inhabitants of this planet who create for pleasure and not for business will finally be treated fairly.
6. Somebody will get stabbed for speaking too loud with his mobile phone in a public place. Every time I am in a situation where somebody disrespects an entire bus to say hi to his grandmother, I find the general hate level is becoming higher and higher.
7. Entrepreneurs will equal adventurers. Where is the excitement these days? Crossing the Atlantic is so twentieth century. Entrepreneurs will be among the cool dudes, hit the Jay Leno show and get coverage in tabloids.
8. Presence applications will impact sociality in a negative way. Twitter users will stop talking about their life to others, not knowing if the person received updates he or she sent over Twitter or Facebook. Presence applications will create a fear to send the same signal twice. (this one I write to make sure you guys comment on this post ;)

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