Cables connecting computers and peripherals have almost completely disappeared. —Ray Kurzweil

Created by gwern on 2010-10-27; known on 2020-01-01; judged wrong by JoshuaZ on 2020-01-01.

• gwern estimated 40% on 2010-10-27
• gwern said “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzweil#2020-2050” on 2010-10-27
• gwern said “power can be delivered wirelessly, and Apple has this as a design goal. so I could see this happening in some segments of the market, albeit not universally” on 2010-10-27
• Jayson Virissimo estimated 50% on 2011-10-10
• JoshuaZ estimated 45% on 2011-10-26
• PseudonymousUser estimated 9% and said “I’ll assume this is a “worldwide” prediction. I’ll trust you to judge this correctly without relying on Kurzweil’s “limited adoption correctness”.” on 2011-10-26
• Pablo estimated 35% on 2012-10-01
• themusicgod1 estimated 67% on 2016-10-07
• Athrithalix estimated 13% on 2018-02-22
• pranomostro estimated 10% on 2019-01-08
• Pablo estimated 0% and said “Definitely not “almost completely”.” on 2019-12-31
• JoshuaZ   judged this prediction wrong on 2020-01-01.