My predictions: 

Near Term - Sarah Palin will run for the Republican nomination, win it and, if unemployment stays over 11% have a good shot at the Presidency. We discuss modern media mastery and manipulation and the merging of media, politics and celebrity all enabled by the Internets.

Longer Term - Arizona and Nevada will wage war on Canada for water who will defend itself by offering passports and donuts.

Longest Term - instant telepathy (first understood via Justin Hall at my SXSWContinuous Partial Attention show) and persistent openness forces us all to learn to be less judgemental and more meaningfully connected.

((tags: Dune, water wars, TWIT, futurism, predictions, Sarah Palin, Canada, french crullers))