The original call
Original year: 2008
2026 assessment
Scorecard verdict: Spot on
Spot on — and when I went back and graded my own 2008 keynote, I gave this one an A+. Go back and read the post: It’s January 15, 2020 - it’s an honest look back at every single prediction I made and how precise I was. Today? Look at your wrist. Heart rate, blood oxygen, ECG, sleep, steps, even glucose monitoring - the wearable became a continuous health sensor, and hundreds of millions of people now carry one. I’ll be honest: I called this “low-hanging fruit” even back then. The trajectory of consumer tech invading the body was obvious. But obvious or not, it landed exactly as described.