Well, well, well — our little blue ball is still spinning around the sun. So much for that prediction. So now that that it’s a safe bet that there will be a LegalTech New York 2013, we thought it might be fun to forecast the future. Law Technology News polled a bunch of folks and asked, “What do you predict will be the most unexpected legal technology development or trend in 2013, and why?”

You can always count on the Minnesotans to cut right to the meat. St. Paul-based consultant George Socha, analyst that he is, takes issue with the query itself: “This is the unanswerable question. Anything you get as a prediction is by definition expected. I can’t think of any unexpected developments or trends, just expected ones.”