Lets discuss future predcitions for IT and software

According to Gartner:

By Year-End 2014, three of the top five mobile handset vendors will be Chinese.
By 2015, big data demand will reach 4.4 million jobs globally, but only one-third of those jobs will be filled.
By 2017, 40 percent of enterprise contact information will have leaked into Facebook via employees' increased use of mobile device collaboration applications.
Through 2014, employee-owned devices will be compromised by malware at more than double the rate of corporate-owned devices.
By 2016, wearable smart electronics in shoes, tattoos and accessories will emerge as a $10 billion industry




CISCO

By 2029, 11 petabytes of storage will be available for $100—equivalent to 600+

years of continuous, 24-hour-per-day, DVD-quality video.

In the next 10 years, we will see a 20-time increase in home networking speeds

By 2013, wireless network traffic will reach 400 petabytes a month

By 2020, a $1,000 personal computer will have the raw processing power of a

human brain

By 2030, it will take a village of human brains to match a $1,000 computer.

By 2050 (assuming a global population of 9 billion), $1,000 worth of computing

power will equal the processing power of all human brains on earth.

Today, we know 5 percent of what we will know in 50 years. In other words, in 50

years, 95 percent of what we will know will have been discovered in the past 50

years.

By 2020 worldwide, the average person will maintain 130 terabytes of personal data

(today it is ~128 gigabytes).

By 2030, artificial implants for the brain will take place.

By 2020, universal language translation will be commonplace in every device

With IPv6, there will be enough addresses for every star in the known universe to

have 4.8 trillion addresses 

CorbinBall

 New indoor positioning options will provide better event and exhibition indoor way finding and mapping.


Sources
Cisco
Gartner predictions
Corbinball