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I am a couple of days late with this one but it made me laugh so much I’d thought I would share it with you anyway. In fact, the last time I laughed like this was when I caught sight of myself naked in the bathroom mirror. After the mirth subsided I lapsed into two days of sobbing followed by a month of depression.

The technology section of the BBC News website (the UK TV state broadcaster), has published its predictions for ‘Technologies on the rise in 2008′. The article, clearly written as part of a primary school project says that “Predicting technology trends can be a difficult business” and goes on to pose such brainteasers as “Could the online and offline worlds meet in 2008?”
With the might of the License Fee behind it (every household owning a TV pays the BBC £135 a year - whether they watch the BBC or not), the broadcaster at the forefront of technology makes five earth shattering predictions for 2008:

1. Applications will make more online content available offline.

2. Ultra-mobile PCs (little laptops!) will become prevalent.

3. IPTV will take off. (oops, thats the BBC license fee stuffed then!)

4. Wimax will take off in europe - this prediction based on the fact that Milton Keynes, (a small town in the UK - not quite the at the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there), “has just launched what it claims if (sic) the first commercial Wimax service in the UK. “

5. VOIP phones will take off.

If you don’t quite understand these predictions you can find them in more detail here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/technology/statements-of-the-bleeding-obvious).