I'm still collecting readers' Second Life Predictions for 2007, and will post my favorite ten next week (when NWN will be back and running at full steam) so they can be put up for a general vote. Some prophetic highlights thus far (slightly streamlined for brevity's sake):
CJ Christensen: The system will go offline for 14 concurrent days.
Alastair Chamerberlin: Google will buy SL in Second Quarter of 2007.
Taco Bandit: A griefer is real life identified, real life stalked, and real life retaliated against.
Anonymous Celebrity: Database and asset problem will force Linden Lab to cap concurrent logins during peak periods.
Morris Vig: Linden Lab gives up on server problems and labor shortage, sells out to IBM.
Torley Linden: Second Life will be namedropped in a chart-topping rap song.
Relee Baysklef: A "Botter" crisis of automated players created through reverse engineered versions of the Second Life client force real Residents out of the world.
Rik Riel: A non-profit charity will raise US$100K through an in-world fundraising event.
Rockwell Ginsburg: Second Life-based income will become taxable.
Taco Bandit: VOIP integration creates a rift between the
wanna-communicate-more-efficiently crowd and the
want-the-anonymizing-shield-of-text-only crowd. "I'm On Mute" icons are created to hang over av heads in response.
Iconoclasm: IBM finds Croquet project more suitable due to its open-source nature
and potentially superior tech; abandoning investments in SL.
Have any of your own to add? Go here and Comment-- deadline's Sunday, Noon SLT. The more specific and verifiable, the more likely I'll be to put it up for vote.