The decline and halt(?) of the gains of Moore's law, and the resulting paradigm shifts for many in the programming trade as we move into truly parallel, distrib

The decline and halt(?) of the gains of Moore's law, and the resulting paradigm shifts for many in the programming trade as we move into truly parallel, distributed, elastic computation at the chip level. The rise of bioinformatics and of the computer as a progenitor of a new age of medicine. A sea change in trading and economics as HFT wreaks havoc and competes with human trading. Maybe these aren't as wild and crazy as you hope, but I think they are some of the most exciting and likely to happen.