While most of what will happen in the future may be a surprise, I believe that there are a lot of things that will happen in the media and marketing industry in the near future that aren't that hard to predict -- certain things so likely to occur, they are almost inevitable. In fact, you could view them as near certainties.

Don't learn things. Trust me on this one. Learning things is no fun. Once you learn, for example, that Chilean sea bass is not actually Chilean sea bass but is instead rebranded Antarctic toothfish that is being fished from the Ross Sea, which was pretty much the last pristine marine ecosystem on the planet, and where it was a top-level predator that was the linchpin to maintaining the delicate balance of that ecosystem, and whose disappearance is pretty much destroying our ability to research and understand how an intact, healthy, flourishing ecosystem actually operates... It makes it kind of hard …