As part of a new Contrafabulists' project, we are monitoring predictions that technologists make each week...

Education Week’s “Market Brief” rewrites a market research press release, predicting that “As more computing devices are available in K–12 classrooms, the market for ed-tech software and tools and back-end administrative technology platforms, is expected to grow to $1.83 billion by 2020, according to Futuresource Consulting, Ltd.”

The Pew Research Center interviews “experts” about the future of jobs and job training. It imposed a “ten-years-in-the-future” timeframe to many of its questions.

The New York Times covers the Pew Research report, noting that two-thirds of respondents said that “new schooling will emerge in the next decade to successfully train workers for the future.”

PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that 38% of American jobs could be automated by 2030, says The Washington Post, and urges millennials to pursue work in health-care support in hospitals and nursing homes, a sector which is “projected to grow 23 percent from 2014 to 2024.”

A machine will be able to smell if you’re sick in a “three- to five-year time frame,” according to Cristina Davis, a biomedical engineer and professor at UC Davis.

ZDNet doesn’t give a timeframe but predicts that “The death of the smartphone is closer than you think.”