As usual, this annual list (the most reliable of its type published anywhere) reports the people, places, and things that will become hot or hot-hot during the following year, not necessarily what’s hot or not-hot now. If you think everything that’s big just keeps getting bigger, you probably bought WaMu stock in ’06.
Saving Detroit (the place) |
Saving the Big Three
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Light rail (at last!)
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Replacing SR 520
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Fleet Foxes |
Vampire Weekend
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iPod Touch (still) |
Zune (but you knew that)
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Demise of the neocons |
Demise of analog TV
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WorldChanging.org |
Hip cynicism
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The Daily Beast |
The Drudge Report
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Ultra-local banks |
“Too big to fail” banks
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Drum-and-bass revival |
Hair-metal revival
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Amateur porn |
Corporate porn
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Decline of daytime soaps |
Decline of daily newspapers
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Extreme ballroom dancing |
Drum circles
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Luke and Noah (As the World Turns) |
Luke and Laura
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New silent movies
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Mumblecore movies
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“Obama’s too conservative” |
“Obama’s too liberal”
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Jimmy Fallon |
Leno in prime time
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Abby Elliott |
Andy Samberg
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K Street (Tacoma) |
K Street (DC)
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