You've read all the year-end recaps and endless analyses of "the decade that was."

Now it's time for predictions of things to come.

But where are the Sylvia Brownes and JoJo Savards? Why no word from the soothsaying set on what the future will hold?

Used to be that a new year started with all kinds of fanciful forecasts -- Pennsylvania will be devoured by cannibals, bicycles will be atomic-powered, Mars will land on Moscow.

Sadly, in these high-tech times, here's the kind of thing you'll find on the Internet in the way of prognostications:

"True usability ROI will continue to elude usability practitioners."

"Facebook will open aggregate-user-profile and social-graph data for outside analysis."

"Faceted search will pervade enterprise applications."

Now doesn't that just rock your world?

However, intensive investigation has allowed us to ascertain the direction 2010 will take. So listen up as we tell you what's REALLY going to happen this year.

Nude cruises

Yes, indeed, all those people you really don't want to see in bathing suits? You won't. They'll be shucking their trunks -- and everything else -- with abandon, if the Association of British Travel Agents is right. Its recently released travel trends report predicts that naked cruising will, uh, take off this year. This isn't a swingers thing, just an option for people who don't want to have tan lines or worry about whether it's formal night in the Neptune dining room.

Jeggings

Just when you thought your post-Christmas-turkey pants couldn't get any tighter, along come jeggings. Ideal for the woman with legs like a whooping crane's, jeggings are leggings that look like painted-on super skinny jeans. Think Kate Moss, Halle Berry, Beyonce. Remarkably comfortable, reasonably priced, but not for the faint of heart -- or large of butt.

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2010: What to expect