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1. iPhone7 will finish the android dominance finally. Apple Pay become prevalent. 2. Google will re-license android so only Google can make android phone. Chinese and Samsung will either stuck with the last android OS or pushing into a fork. 3. Driver assistance AI will become standard in 2017 model car, we will see car industry the most active AI research and acquisition market. 4. AMD and nVidia competition heat up and will drive deep learning into deeper and ever increasing number layers, and hit a breaking point when the next Google emerges to replace search and Wikipedia, at finger tip. 5. Microsoft Hololens will be a hit, it actually revives Microsoft from doom. But we will find Amazon enter into VR market. 6. Amazon drone delivery will start in a limit number of area, suburban mostly. 7. Elon Musk will bankrupt as the oil price continue in downward trend, and solar panel adoption slowdown as punished by power company. 8. We will see the first Bitcoin/blockchain based crowdfunding, may even be equity based. Meanwhile Bitcoin price will double as bankers busy push their own blockchain based banking infrastructure, while ignorant to Apple Pay is eating them alive. 9. Facebook enter China market, and increases its size of user by another quarter, while Facebook breakthrough in online translation for the first time makes choice language irrelevant. 10. Trump wins presidential election, WWIII becomes the predominant theme of the computer games released in the years followed.



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