2009 will be the year of machine translation

Speaking of the singularity, I've subscribed to my first foreign language blog, thanks to Google Reader's integrated machine translation services.

I've read a few predictions for 2009.

Here's mine.

This will be seen as the year that machine translation went mainstream.

The world's IQ is about to go up 10 points.

The press makes much of Apple and Palm's recent twitches, but those companies are dull as dust compared to Google. I don't think we grasp what's happening there.