Predictions

True Quantum computing processing will be developed, along with suitable human interface devices, although not not necessarily is close sequence.

A period of crudity will exist in the programming of these computers.

Mathematicians and programmers will develop shortcuts to exploit and trace paths through infinite probability, 'quantum shortcuts' if you will; This will lead to a radical growth in the usability and possibilities of quantum computing.

tremendous breakthroughs will be made in mathematics; physics; from astro- to quantum, chemistry, microbiology will all flourish; engineering will explode. New layers of mathematics and sciences will be discovered beneath them all. Mathematical thinking will exceed our own by a measure surpassing that separating us from the barbarian hordes.

Computer programmers and the various engineers of hardware could likely provide any boon of technology our economies could bear, and interface and entertainment equipment will have have reached astonishing levels of recreation, no doubt offering many ways to synthesize, using computer technology, software entities that behave and/or appear like human beings.

Among the theorists, new maths and technologies will be applied to the creation of grand mathematical simulations, likely with intent to mapping the patterns of the human mind from the quantum to the cellular or somesuch reach, or perhaps to discovering the distant terminii of tremendous patterns in the universe itself, patterns obvious to even the modern mathematical mind. It is simulations of this nature, simulations that seek to encompass their own creators, that could possibly allow for an true "artificial" intelligence to emerge.

All of this will happen by June, 2008. No, not really; it will take a very long time.