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Top Tech Journalists Make 2014 Predictions

Here are the predictions made by top technology journalists at the Public Relations Society of America Silicon Valley Media Predicts 2014 event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., tonight emceed by popular local business and technology broadcast reporter Scott Budman.

Rich Karlgaard, Forbes: Apple will buy Nest Labs. This will pave the way for the Nest CEO to become the future CEO of Apple. Also, Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google will buy The New York Times.

Lauren Goode, AllThingsD: Health technology will be big, especially software.

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Dylan Tweney, Venturebeat: The sky will be black with drones.

Elizabeth Dwoskin, The Wall Street Journal: Ad targeting, especially location-based, will expand exponentially. Also start-ups mining social data will be big.

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Farhad Manjoo, The Wall Street Journal: Same day delivery will be hot. This will be a big problem for stores.

Jon Swartz, USA Today: Jack Dorsey will simultaneously be the CEO of Twitter and Square. (My two cents: Isn’t this already the case? If so, it’s a very conservative prediction.)

Popular topics included Snapchat not taking the $3b acquisition offer, NSA and government snooping, criminal use of Bitcoin, the awesomeness of Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk, same day delivery, Twitter’s stock price, robots and drones, whether or not Sheryl Sandberg could succeed as Microsoft’s next CEO, Box, Dropbox, whether or not people are losing interest in Facebook, and wearable technology.  IBM Watson’s use for medical applications and how Cisco is doing financially were also mentioned.

Check out more of the conversation on Twitter at #MP14. PRSA Silicon Valley is at @PRSASV and I’m @FromMichelle.

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