in 2010, the internet society made some videos on possible internet
futures ten years out, i.e. nowish.  nothing spot on, but themes
can be seen for sure.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB4zfGwctGc

• They were right about platforms becoming important (tablets, mobile phones, wearables, e.t.c.). What they didn't foresee was that platforms and traditional OS's would be outdone by the app. The app is now everything, and all platforms and OS's strive to do is make sure the app is front & centre, dulling the hardware and software fundamentals into the background.
  

• I can see why they envisaged the Internet getting broken up into partitioned islands. What they didn't account for was that telco's would no longer be in charge of building the global network at scale, but rather, content folk.

• They put a bit of stock in classic news still being relevant 10 years on. I can see why. But hell, social media took care of that problem :-).

• Where I would agree one of their assumptions "may" align with one niche - the newspaper - in 2021, is that news content will not be restricted to professional journalists, but also to regular folk who are granted some kind of access to publish on the digital version of a reputable paper. This, of course, is only if traditional news media still wants to promote the idea that quality news actually matters.
  

If the last decade is anything to go by, I'm keen to see what the next one brings.

Mark.