And stale older predictions are often dropped, said Tim Gaumer, its director of fundamental research.
Old Prediction: The Internet will revolutionize the music business.
Old Prediction: Internet gambling will be a $5 billion business by 2003.
Old Prediction: The Internet will become more important than television, radio, even the sun.
Old Prediction: Webvan will change the shopping experience as we have come to know it.
Old Prediction: Gasoline will be available for download through your computer.
Old Prediction: An "Advertising Model" will replace the for-pay system of commerce, particularly for publishing, media and entertainment.
Old Prediction: The old model of valuing companies based on their financial returns will be replaced by a model that measures whether a company establishes a major brand name and has a marketing campaign revolving around a sock puppet.
Old Prediction: Day traders -- individual investors using the Internet to trade stocks -- will become an increasingly important force, eventually achieving equal footing with large investment banks, institutional investors and major pension funds.
Is color forecasting a boon or a bust for consumers, who walk into a store and see not freedom of choice, but the palettes of a year-old prediction, or purchases that coordinate magically with everything else?
