Anytime I hear people making predictions, my first reaction is to call their bluff. No one—neither the weather man nor LaToya Jackson—has any clue what's going to happen tomorrow, let alone next week or they'd be filthy, filthy rich.

That said, VentureBeat has an interesting round-up of what went down at the annual Top Ten Tech Trends debate this week in Silicon Valley, where a bunch of well-known VCs get together and try to guess what's going to be hot in business next year. The audience then votes whether they agree or disagree. Before checking out their newest predictions, bear in mind that last year Steve Jervetson posited that the first synthetic life form would be created—and 95% of the audience agreed with him. He ostensibly wasn't talking about Second Life.

This year's trends, below, are far less bold. In fact, some of them seem downright obvious. Others—your mobile phone as most important device—already seem to have happened (hello, iPhone). Any thoughts?

"Trend 1: Customer data stored by different service providers will be combined to create more intelligent services.

Trend 2: Biofuels made from non-food crops.

Trend 3: Water technology

Trend 4: The mobile device industry's migration to smart phones will produce great disruption for big industry players.

Trend 5: Booming market for healthy aging technologies

Trend 6: Four-fifths of the world population will carry mobile Internet devices within five to 10 years

Trend 7: Algorithms will be constructed to develop new industrial chemicals, new biofuels and eventually artificial intelligence

Trend 8: The mobile phone is your most important device.

Trend 9: There is going to be a venture capital shakeout.

Trend 10: Within five years everything that matters to you will be available on a device that fits on your belt or in your purse."