Good list of 5 predictions. I’d agree with 3.5 of these (1,2,3, half of 5), disagreeing with the 1.5 concerning Uber.

WHERE I AGREE

VR won’t go far — Can’t really go wrong here as Oculus will be too early to go mainstream. Eventually VR will take off, but still too soon.

Cryptocurrency won’t go far — Nothing on the horizon to make interest suddenly spike and a lot of vested interests not to.

Apple Watch 2 won’t go far — Watches are “geek cool” but still niche in general, will remain so until either people can’t leave home without it or the battery lasts a week+.

Slack will spawn giants— I agree with this about Slack, it’s becoming the “open enough” human+machine messaging platform we wanted Twitter to grow into. Slack integration will be table stakes for any API by year’s end and businesses will be built on top of it, plus the company will be happy to facilitate them.

WHERE I DISAGREE

Uber won’t compete with Yelp. They probably will eventually, but presently are laser focused on making the experience as simple and cheap as possible via pooling, fixed routes, and self-driving vehicles. Plus expanding markets and services (courier + food delivery). I don’t see them losing focus from those.

Uber’s API will be used in limited ways. Uber is very guarded with their API and don’t want to end up in a situation where people can make direct comparisons and see Uber as but one of several commodity routers. So yes, existing companies will take great advantage of the API (accounting software, hotels, etc.) but you won’t see a giant startup totally reliant on it.