Gurdeep Singh Pall blogged about his UC predictions for 2009, here are the topic list but at the original post a full explanation of each item is given.
1. UC gets unified
2. UC gets softer
3. UC goes everywhere
4. UC applications spread
5. Unified conferencing emerges
6. Voice mail finds the inbox
7. UC goes to the cloud
8. Consumer experiences begin to drive UC requirements
9. Organizations evolve for UC
10. UC adoption takes off
Read the full story at source: http://blogs.technet.com/uc/archive/2009/01/06/ten-predictions-for-uc-in-2009.aspx