I think demand for development skills is going to continue to increase. While there does seem to be an increased popularity, there is still a number of people

I think demand for development skills is going to continue to increase. While there does seem to be an increased popularity, there is still a number of people who exit the profession either due to burn-out or retirement. Anecdotally, in the UK there has been concern for some-time about the number of people retiring from technology positions in the financial sector (people in there 50s due to very generous retirement provisions); industry crunches like this along with 'software eating the world' would suggest to me that the good times will continue for some time. The word of warning I'd have is more around the economics of VC finance - money is cheap right now, if/when interest rates rise there might be an impact on the amount of money available to start-ups. But it's not like any other industry/profession is going to be unaffected by macro-economic issues.