Some are book signings, while others are events where I'm slated to give a keynote speech. To predict what's next or what might happen, I find it useful to look back at history. The best technology doesn't always win. In fact, it often loses. More often than not the current of progress flows in a path that is only obvious in retrospect.
Most projections get it profoundly wrong, especially where there are vested interests at stake.
Edison got the future wrong regarding telephony. He had a vested interest in seeing it developed as a one-way downstream medium. If the Wizard of Menlo Park could get it wrong, we mere mortals can and often do muff it as well. Because we typically have our own vested interests at stake and look at the future through those distorted lenses. A better way of looking out beyond today is to imagine oneself a year out and then look back just 3 months, which would still be nine months ahead of now.