IoT launches full force, and is an immediate catastrophe. Estimates suggest over 50% of IoT devices in the home are susceptible to RCE, but vendors still do not

IoT launches full force, and is an immediate catastrophe. Estimates suggest over 50% of IoT devices in the home are susceptible to RCE, but vendors still do not issue patches because no one is forcing them. Underground video channels exist where you can spy on people through the enormous collection of cameras embedded on devices like toasters, light bulbs, doorbells, etc. Cyberwar (ugh, that term) has become white hot after a nuclear reactor meltdown in Russia where every adversary blames each other and America blames Russia for a false flag operation. Packets are now blocked from entering/exiting entire countries unless you have a special permit. Like with radio/tv in Cold War I, everyone begins suspecting spies and government malware in their computers. People increasingly huddle for safety in walled gardens like Facebook, rarely venturing out to unknown sites. Node/js experiences a huge exodus of maturing developers seeking a more professional, rigorous language, leaving behind massive codebases of poorly-written and completely undocumented code and over 3 million node package libraries with varying dependency issues. Javascript has become so popular worldwide that Americans barely make mimimum wage coding in it. Ethereum still struggles to find any devs who can understand how the fuck their entire platform is supposed to work despite an additional white paper being published. Microsoft admits no one wants a windows phone and retreats from the mobile market, dooming themselves to simply dominating the dismal "legacy" desktop world only inhabited by developers, people too poor to afford a mobile phone, enterprise customers, and call support centers. Open Sourcing .Net winds up causing large amounts of developers to learn Linux, and they develop a taste for it. C# developers are recognized for their overall brilliance and steadfastness and paid 500K/yr salaries by all employers. (OK, that's a wish, not a prediction) VR has completely polarized the planet between "pukers" and "players". Thousands die every year from VR-wasting disease brought on by malnutrition and lack of sleep from being fully immersed for weeks on end. TechCrunch collapses under the weight of it's hideously poor commenters and a management sex scandal. Self-Driving cars get off to a rocky start, as normal drivers everywhere attempt to run them off the road to "test" their safety. NoSql replaces Not-NoSql so quickly people begin dropping it from their resume as a skill.