I think that the other commenters here are on to something with Data Mining, but they are not seeing it right. What is really needed is more than Data Mining bu

I think that the other commenters here are on to something with Data Mining, but they are not seeing it right. What is really needed is more than Data Mining but more of Data Abstraction. I.e, there is a LOT of different data out there. People have very different needs for it. We cannot know all the possible usecases for this data. This information has to be abstracted and simplified so that data mining apps become trivially easy for business types to write. That is a good area to be in. If you know enough about dealing with data such that you can be one of the ones building layers on top of the data, then there is a lot of opportunity there. 5 years is a reasonable estimation for this. Before then may be a bit tough. Another important thing to learn are Location Based Services. The problem is that the applications at the moment have not all been invented yet, and it's not clear when it will reall trickle down to the Ex-VB6 guys.