High-tech WIRED digerati pundits on
the year to come:
Bush and Attorney General Ashcroft will honor their debt to Microsoft, for its prepaid purchase of legal assistance, by settling the massive anti-trust findings against the operating system monopoly with some trivial, look-good slap on the wrist.
One or more of the Top-10 public relations firms will purchase major shares of South Africa-based partnerships that lease paramilitary mercenaries for low intensity wars. The integrated corporations will discretely cross-market themselves as "full service" crisis management specialists.