Exceptional post @kevinwong.
You really hit home with me on #2. I consider myself a bit of a futurist/technologist and started studying technology about 8 years ago. It is amazing what you can foresee once you do this. There are so many society-changing technologies coming down the road that people are going to be amazed. The thing is it occurs at warp speed.
Cryptos are just one of many. 3D printing holds incredible promise and, ultimately, quantum computing will radically shift everything. While some ideas still are far off, it is good to understand then at this point....they will be here.
Thanks for posting this.
It's most fun field imo. Actually one reason why I think cryptos will be big is that it wasn't something that any futurist/technologists saw coming before. Well not many have expressed such a thing anyway. So far I've only came across a book in 1997 titled "The Sovereign Individual" that expected something like Bitcoin, very interesting book since the authors obviously understood the information society and how it's gonna change things. So i think it's a good sign it's something truly transformative. As for eco-green, 3d-printing stuff, still a long ways off but i think it'll definitely be mindblowing stuff
I just wrote an article about yourself and the projections you made here...including your $10T market cap.
Linked your article too along with your username to give you full credit.
3D printing is making great strides...I think 2019 will be the year that enjoys a massive explosion...2020 the latest.....a number of recent breakthoughs tell me they are getting closer to moving from prototype to production level....I give them another 12-18 months to work out the kinks and they will be ready for primetime in my view.