1. A combination of public education and technically viable alternate funding streams will destroy VC/registered corporation modes of capital/motivation for a greater number of talented developers able to harness public interest. This is the biggest change: social.
2. The remote gig thing will begin to dissipate.
3. The Chinese RMB will be a global reserve currency and the Chinese international banking system will offer a viable alternative to SWIFT. More of the world will have adopted the IBAN, the US will still have its head in the sand. More people will leave western countries for the developing world, where overarching government surveillance and cost of living concerns do not encroach on daily life, and education and political stability have improved.
4. The biggest technology shift will be the mass adoption of wireless ad-hoc/mesh networking. The biggest losers will be mobile carriers and government surveillance, who will push hard politically to ban such direct communication between citizens by asserting that such communication is dangerous and that only terrorists and poor people have [this mode of] conversations.
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1. A combination of public education and technically viable alternate funding streams will destroy VC/registered corporation modes of capital/motivation for a greater number of talented developers able to harness public interest. This is the biggest change: social.
2. The remote gig thing will begin to dissipate.
3. The Chinese RMB will be a global reserve currency and the Chinese international banking system will offer a viable alternative to SWIFT. More of the world will have adopted the IBAN, the US will still have its head in the sand. More people will leave western countries for the developing world, where overarching government surveillance and cost of living concerns do not encroach on daily life, and education and political stability have improved.
4. The biggest technology shift will be the mass adoption of wireless ad-hoc/mesh networking. The biggest losers will be mobile carriers and government surveillance, who will push hard politically to ban such direct communication between citizens by asserting that such communication is dangerous and that only terrorists and poor people have [this mode of] conversations.