missTwo blind graders agree (D7, rule D16). The auditor agent confirmed it (D11).
Grader A: miss
In 2009 a typical person carried one or two computing devices (phone, maybe a music player or laptop). Bluetooth personal area networks linked a phone to a headset, but a dozen networked body-worn computers was not typical, and it was not typical by 2014 either.
Test: At least 20% of people with 12 or more networked on-body devices: effectively 0%.
Bluetooth (Wikipedia) (retrieved 2026-09): Bluetooth personal area networks existed mainly for phone-to-headset links and peripherals in 2008-2010.
Smartwatch (Wikipedia) (retrieved 2026-09): Wearable computers were pre-commercial in 2009.
Grader B: miss
In 2009 a typical person carried one to three devices (phone, maybe a media player and Bluetooth headset). Nothing near a dozen networked on-body computers existed, then or by 2014.
Test: Household test: users with ~12 networked body devices ~0%.
Wikipedia: Wearable computer (accessed 2026-09-28): Pebble 2012, Google Glass test 2013, Apple Watch April 2015; no commercial ring/earring computers documented.
All captured fields
rank
5
kind
decade_prediction
section
Computers
subject
Networked computers on and around us
target year
2009
timing
in
position
Chapter 9, "2009"; item Computers 5 in Kurzweil 2010, p. 14
confidence
high
note
Wording as reproduced by the author in "How My Predictions Are Faring" (2010); book page not given there. Subject label is the essay's own item heading.