What’s in the future?

In Apple I could predict a year ahead because I could see it in the labs there. But whenever I predicted 2 years out, I was way off. Too many unexpected advances or new approaches showed up. Even what made sense to do changed many times. What’s worth doing today, could change tomorrow. All the efforts that solve today’s problem might be futile if people don’t need those solutions next year, either because the problem is gone or because there’s another type of solution. Today’s Iridium phones might be an example of this.