It’s fun to speculate about what this or that will look like in five years. It’s fun because everyone gets to be right…or rather, no one can be proven wrong. So at dinner parties and lunches and meetings it’s an easy way for everyone to chit chat about meaningful things without any real consequences or responsibility.
The more helpful conversation is what are we going to do right now…both in the face of reality (how things currently are) and how the macro ideas of five years from now might affect our tiny portion of the world.