Digital crystal balls: Tech pundits' tenuous but intriguing prognostications about 2016 and beyond

UK Only Article:  standard article Fly Title:  Digital crystal balls Rubric:  The advent of robo-adviser and robo-boss Main image:  20160102_wbp515.jpg PREDICTIONS are hard, especially about the future, goes the adage. They may be hardest in digital technology, where the next big thing can come out of nowhere. Even so, market-research firms, big and small, stick their necks out at the end of each year on where the technology industry is headed. Inevitably, there is a great deal of inscrutabl...