I wrote this email to a friend on February 4th, 2008. Just a list of my predictions for the next 5 years:

So within 5 years I think:

1. XMPP will be the protocol for real-time web apps
2. Browsers will have javascript implementations that go through a JIT. Microsoft actually has this working. They have javascript working on their DLR (which is the newer virtual machine for dynamic languages).
3. People may implement their own virtual machines in the javascript just so they can easily port existing code to the web. (This point is a big maybe but could be cool)
4. Erlang will be cool partly because of the XMPP server that is written in erlang.
5. And facebook will have gone public.

So now you know and are my witness.

Evan