Ahhh yes. December is the time for Christmas. For gift-giving. For singing carols. For gathering friends, family and loved ones.
And for me to write the most hated, feared and usually botched up stupid excuse of a writing exercise waste – of – valuable – space, time, money and effort article of the year – the “Fearless Forecast” – where I sum up what I, in my most wildest, weirdest and wackiest attempt, try to figure out what’s gonna happen next year in modern technology.
Talk about being the wrong guy to do it. First of all, it cannot be called Fearless, because fear is what it’s all about. Fear is so pervasive it’s anything but.
Second, publishing a forecast is about as close to suicide as I can get if I flung this 17″ monitor I’m staring at in the air and stepped underneath for it to land on my head. I will not be able to show my face in polite techie society once it gets published.
Third, I know very little to almost nothing of gadgets. I know I played around with quite a few and yes I write about them a lot, as far as predicting how those things will turn out, I’m a dodo.
Fourth, if I don’t know anything about gadgets, I know even less about gaming and game consoles. The guys at the Asian Gaming Journalists Association (by the way I’ll be seeing them at the Christmas party tomorrow), are going to read it, laugh, kick me in the head when they see me, and laugh as I writhe in pain. It’s going to be painful physically and emotionally. Sorry in advance Joey.
Fifth (yes I actually reach fifth), in the area where I do know something (uhmm.. the web.), who can possibly make any prediction about things like, say, what Google does? Who would have known for example, before Google launched Gmail, that it was still possible for a free email service to prosper? Not only did it prosper, it kicked butt. About as hard as how my butt’s gonna get kicked when people in the know, people I respect and work with, read my article. It’s gonna be bloody.
At any rate, if anyone reads this blog, now’s the time to speak up and please let me know what you think. I’m probably gonna just try to wing it – the way I usually do – by writing about other stuff like how I feel about this or that development.
I know it’s silly, but if you read my articles (hopefully someone does), I can point out where I did that just to fill up space. It’s nuts, but occasionally it works.
Help me out please? Thanks!
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