I am a futurist, if it matters. Not really. It will all end up like Snowcrash, which is a book, if you haven’t read, you need to read… now.
Honestly, multiple devices will dissolve, and people will crash and react to constant online behaviour. Social media will still be powerful, but it will also be mature with our ADD resolving itself in regards to the shiny new toy syndrome, and people will start flip flopping on consumption – where people will make technology work for them rather than be addicted to technology. In this, you will have people stop checking in, being over engaged, and wholly narcissistic about maintaining profiles and being self involved….. usage will slow, but it will be more meaningful in regards to engaging an audience with meaningful content, questions, etc and using it to our advantage and simplification, rather than creating gaps, complexity, and distance between people.
All this will be part of a general move away from the constant tether of technology…. ereaders will grow in popularity as cell phones have declined… just like ipod like digital music players have become redundant to the modern capacity of PDA phones. People always carry a magazine or newspaper with them, so most e-readers will adopt texting as a meaningful and convenient way for people to communicate with one another, and intermim and awkward public phone calls will drop out of favor. E-Readers will have robust features, and be more like this – http://zedomax.com/blog/2010/08/27/lgs-flexible-e-reader-newspaper-goes-into-production-and-in-color/
a flexible and convenient source for content, but will buck the need for phone calls…. the tether of availability will loosen, and people will only access tech at their leisure rather than be controlled and pinpointed by tech without them opt-ing into it.
This will bring around the rise of futuristic pay phone banks that have touch screen technology and full CPU capacity. These will be covered in grafitti.
And the light up umbrellas from blade runner will be more popular.
You can quote me.