I'm going to play the spoiler and say that I think everyone here is on the wrong track. In the short term, yes, I think it will business-as-usual, with some of

I'm going to play the spoiler and say that I think everyone here is on the wrong track. In the short term, yes, I think it will business-as-usual, with some of the ideas being discussed here happening. But think of the transition from horse to automobile. If you didn't predict the invention of the airplane, your guesses about transportation in the future would have been pretty far off. I think the questions to ask are: -why will anyone commute to work in the future, when telecommuting becomes more and more lifelike? -what will "work" even look like? We can't be that far away from most service jobs being replaced by computers/robots. -Why would anyone go shopping, when anything they want can be delivered to them instantly or even printed on-site?