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Post your 2013 Predictions Here

First, a special thanks to GreyArea for some helpful observations.
Brown said:
1. A major security problem will plague a prominent company, affecting millions of customers.
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My goodness, so many security problems this year, in so many industries, affecting so many customers. Even gaming companies, and their millions of customers, are at risk.

Brown said:
5. A controversial game will garner much attention.
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There actually have been several games that have garnered attention recently, but there is one that seems to be a spot-on hit: Ontario public broadcaster pulls controversial game showing bombing of pipeline. The video game, funded by Canadian taxpayers, involves trying to build a money-making pipeline without harming the environment or angering local farmers. The game's introductory video appears to depict protesting activists and a pipeline blowing up.

Brown said:
33. It will be announced that a high-ranking al Qaeda member has been killed.
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That's a bingo! Abou Zeid, al-Qaida Commander, Reportedly Killed by French Airstrikes in Mali: "A high ranking al-Qaida commander is suspected to have been killed after a French airstrike killed dozens of militants in Mali...." Abou Zeid's death was confirmed shortly afterward.

Brown said:
The Internet will popularize a new craze; the craze will be criticized by some as foolishness.
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Harlem Shake, anyone? 'Harlem Shake' rattles nerves: "According to YouTube Trends, more than 40,000 of these [Harlem Shake] videos had hit the web before Valentine’s Day and we can only imagine the amount that have been uploaded since. The ubiquity of this meme makes everyone think they can add something unique to the conversation, but unfortunately every attempt ends with people looking like fools."
 
Brown said:
3. A movie stunt will go wrong.
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Apparently a stunt going wrong is a major plot point in the movie, "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone." But the mysterious forces of the universe are telling me that there may be another event in 2013 that fulfills this prediction.
 
Blue Mountain said:
52. Area 51 will be in the news
53. There will be major news in the Sasquatch/Bigfoot community
54. A major terrorist action in a major city will cause people to wonder about their safety
55. There will be a scandal involving a big bank
56. A movie star will start a diet fad named after him or her
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We're only into March, but barring a major scandal on the level of the Libor rate fixing from last year I can claim the Cypriot bail-out as a hit.
 
Moon-Spinner said:
12. Pat Robertson will say something insane.
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I think a more challenging prediction might be to predict the month in which Robertson DIDN'T say something insane. His latest loopy remark is very loopy indeed:
On Monday's episode of the Christian Broadcasting Network's "700 Club," a viewer wrote in and asked why miracles -- "like people being raised from the dead, blind eyes opened, lame people walking" -- often happen overseas and not in the United States, RawStory notes. Robertson was quick to respond that the teaching of evolution in America might be partly to blame.

"Those people overseas didn't go to Ivy League schools," he said. "We're so sophisticated. We think we've got everything figured out. We know about evolution, we know about Darwin, we know about all these things that says God isn’t real. We know about all this stuff."

He continued, adding that "in the more advanced schools, we've been inundated with skepticism and secularism. And overseas they're simple, humble. You tell them God loves them, and they say, 'Okay, he loves me.' You say, 'God'll do miracles' and they say, 'Okay, we believe him.' That's what God's looking for. That's why they have miracles."
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Both houses of the legislature in Uruguay have now approved marriage equality and their president has promised to sign, so there's one of my 3 predicted marriage equality countries just about down, with France and the UK to go.
 
Brown said:
The year will see a tragic collapse, one that probably could have been avoided.
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India Building Collapses. There are dozens of deaths from this collapse so far, and the early reports say that the building was not in compliance with law. The story also says that there is rampant disregard for building codes, regulations and permits, and that corner-cutting and corruption are widespread.
 
Brown said:
27. A holiday will hold tragedy.
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From the Wall Street Journal:
The Boston Marathon, which dates to 1897, is the oldest such race in the U.S. and one of six in the World Marathon Majors series along with contests in New York, Chicago, London, Berlin and Tokyo.

The annual Boston run is held on the third Monday in April and coincides with Patriots' Day, a Massachusetts holiday that commemorates the first battles of the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord.
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By now we all know of the tragedy that occurred in Boston, at the Marathon.
 
hcmom said:
Damn, Brown. Well, at least we know you aren't related to Sylvia, because she's never been that accurate.
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Too easy! How many holidays in a year? I'm sure a tragedy happens on a holiday every year. I mean, pick any holiday (or any random day), then find a newspaper for that day or the next day and somewhere in that paper something tragic that occurred on that day will be reported. :boxedin:
 
Blue Mountain said:
52. Area 51 will be in the news
53. There will be major news in the Sasquatch/Bigfoot community
54. A major terrorist action in a major city will cause people to wonder about their safety
55. There will be a scandal involving a big bank
56. A movie star will start a diet fad named after him or her
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In light of the recent Royal Bank of Canada kerfuffle, outsourcing IT and causing the loss of Canadian jobs, I'd call this one a hit.
 
Puppycow said:
Too easy! How many holidays in a year? I'm sure a tragedy happens on a holiday every year. I mean, pick any holiday (or any random day), then find a newspaper for that day or the next day and somewhere in that paper something tragic that occurred on that day will be reported. :boxedin:
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Well, I remember that one Fourth of July, where they had all of those explosions, all over the USA. Ooooh! Aaaah!

Seriously, really bad things on holidays are fairly rare occurrences. The only ones that spring immediately to mind are the Boxing Day tsunami and the St. Valentine's Day massacre. But I expect there are more.

By the way, belated thanks again to GreyArea.
 
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