Looking back at looking ahead can be fun, so here’s a pretty comprehensive list of marketing predictions for 2009. Meanwhile, 2010 is right around the corner and we still don’t have the flying cars they were predicting back in the 1950s and ’60s.

Because it was inevitable: Here’s an Internet list of the best Internet lists of 2009. This one is my favorite.

“Like a magpie building its nest, we have hunted eclectically, though not without discrimination, for noteworthy notions of 2009 — the twigs and sticks and shiny paper scraps of human ingenuity, which, when collected and woven together, form a sort of cognitive shelter, in which the curious mind can incubate, hatch and feather.”

If that sounds interesting to you, then you’ll probably like this extensive piece in yesterday’s New York Times Magazine. Among the ideas you’ll see discussed: Web searches in real time, that good enough is the new great, social networks as foreign policy and  the advertisement that watches you.

Over on Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow writes about America’s government video archives and how they ought to be released to the public that paid for them. Sounds like a good idea. Click that link and read about how watching the videos and spreading the word can help make that happen.

Classic. And all too true.