vivek wadhwa is with me from palo alto. what, leave it to you to we missed in 2013. start with number one, computing. number five, actually. computing has become smaller and cooler. >> the ipad mini, about a year ago people were laughing at it. now it is a runaway success. also tablets, tablet numbers are trumping the pcs in the desktops. my prediction is over the next few years, companies like dell, microsoft, acer, all of these seriouss are in trouble. here is another thing that is happening. tablet is $25 available in the united states now for $38. it will not be long, and within willo or two, jeff bezos not say, if people buy amazon prime, why not give a tablet away? you will see a shift in the tablet industry with people losing -- using smaller computers. >> this seems to me to be a trend every year. is this really something that has been overlooked? are people focusing on the wrong thing? >> people do not understand how fast things are changing. who uses a desktop anymore? people either use a tablet or a laptop. --n tablets are looking for are getting smaller.

earlier today, i spoke with vivek wadhwa about the trends he says were overlooked in the year. tablet prices will drop, maybe 20, and he also thinks electric cars are proving their worth, despite those tesla fires, and he mentioned technology is reducing the cost of health care, but what is on the rest of his list? take a listen. number two -- robotics. we know google bought a number of robotics companies this year, but what are they going to do with them? >> when we were young, we used to watch "the jetsons" and we dreamed about rosie the robot and all these amazing advances that would happen. the reason why they have not happened is because the computer power required to do voice recognition and facial recognition was too great. my little iphone has more computing power than supercomputers had not too long ago. now we can build these sophisticated robots. if you look at first robotic, children are building robots -- high school kids are building sophisticated robots. in the next five or seven years, you will start seeing robots serving us. google is getting one leg up, buying