The Gang does its annual technology prognostications for 2014. Hear what we predicted to happen in 2013 (and what we missed) and listen to our prognostications for 2014.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
The Podcast
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Discussed During the Show
Minnesota Stories
- Target
- With Shoppable Hangout, Best Buy marries social media to commerce
- Plowz brings a plow to your driveway via a phone app
Other Big Stories
- Amazon sold 426 items per second in run-up to Christmas
- There yet? UPS, FedEx moving Christmas packages late
- Apple’s iOS Completely Blew Away Google’s Android For Shopping On Christmas
- Google Chromebooks Find Success Over the Holidays
2013 Predictions Links
2014 Predictions Links
- The Erasable Internet
- Apple Hearing Aid iPhone
- ReSound
- Bitcoin
- Internet of Things
- U.S. Power Grid
- Bluetooth Smart (also called Bluetooth LE or Bluetooth 4.0)
- Wearable Technology
- Personal Cloud
- Big Data tools
- NSA/Future of Encryption
Upcoming Events
- INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy 1st Tue of each month 3:30-4:30pm
- MHTA Event at Mpls Institute of Arts – Jan 9, 2014
- Minneapolis Public Schools STEM Expo – Tuesday, Feb 12, 2014
- Mobile March March 20, 2014 – Tickets on sale now!
The 
The National Security Agency (NSA) scandal continues and this satirical 
Even top-tier baseball players have hits and whiffs at the plate. The Gang had both from our 2012 predictions, but we have some quite good ones for 2013. Are they perfect? You decide.
The Gang was all over the place at events this past week and we also discuss the potential for the disruption of the TV business. Steve rationalizes downloading content he ‘forgot’ to record on his DVR — and is adamant he shouldn’t have to buy content more than once — and Tim has strong feelings about buying content…unless it’s 
A continued acceleration in all things mobile takes an interesting twist this week with a Best Buy VC investment in electric scooters. We then have on a special guest, Lisa Foote, CEO and Co-Founder of 
The Gang became aware of the introduction of the brand new 
The 2011 summer acceleration in all-things-tech continues unabated. The Gang discusses the continued explosion in cloud services and how many are driving toward “cloud money” by monetizing their offerings, or offering cloud strategies with the intent of being in-the-game and making money on cloud uses (e.g., Twitter, Best Buy’s Music Cloud, respectively).