House Cleaning My January 1, 2018 Predictions

Quick Summary: I am going to continue to do my yearly update on three sets of technologies every January 1st. I am going to decouple them from my prediction tables from the first post on January 1st, 2018, as the dates for predicted events are getting sparser, and at the same time many things have gone in different directions than where everyone believed the would go eight and a half years ago. I will also bring into play the five new directional predictions I made a year ago and first included in my annual update at the start of this year. The long, long tables from previous posts are heading out the door with this post. A BRIEF HISTORY OF My PREDICTIONS The acronyms I used for predictions in my original post were as follows. NET year means it will not happen before that year (No Earlier Than) BY year means I predict that it will happen by that year. NIML, Not In My Lifetime, i.e., not before 2050. As time passes mentioned years I color then as accurate, too pessimistic, or too…