1. As Enterprises get cozy in the cloud, the next wave of startups will get their infrastructure else where in order to compete and differentiate. On-prem becom

1. As Enterprises get cozy in the cloud, the next wave of startups will get their infrastructure else where in order to compete and differentiate. On-prem becomes sexy again. 2. Biotech laced with computer science really hits it stride. 3. Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as a financial instrument go extinct but the idea of distributed payments for services directly to providers lives on. Blockchain is replaced with ledgers and protocols that allow companies to give consumers transparency without all the blockchain and mining shenanigans. 4. We finally figure out how to compensate open source developers for their work. 5. Social media use looks like it dies down hard but it just evolves into something else, especially with the under-40 crowd. Probably driven by wearables and AR so ad companies can still get metadata. 6. Intel nearly goes belly up and gets bought by Dell. VMware goes bankrupt because Kubernetes doesn't pan out. 7. AI winter part 2 and it's really ugly. Tech is the center of the next recession. 8. Google becomes like Yahoo is right now, not because a better search engine emerges, but because search becomes less important. 9. A new operating system emerges. It gives programmers much better access to hardware and has distributed systems primitives built in. RISC-V leads to lots of domain specific chips. And just so I can be sure to get one right: 10. A new market leader in chat emerges to supplant Slack.