NewScientist predictions include:

Earthlings will surely thrill at finding their planetary double: our calculation suggests the discovery could happen next year.

By assuming that the rate of increase in adoption continues to follow a logistic curve, we were able to estimate when adoption would hit 50 per cent (see graph). In a logistic curve, this always corresponds to the inflection point. Our calculation suggests we will reach this in 2013.

This could be the year when we quit dragging ourselves to work and send remote-controlled robot avatars instead.