1. What's a trend you've spotted recently (one where you're ahead-of-the-curve on spotting it)?
2. What kind of evidence are you noticing that makes you think it's a trend?
nobody's going to be in control of their technology, not the users because of DRM and security, and not the vendors either because there's only going to be more badly-understood turing-complete components to everything
The young ones, not brought up in the physical world, find our notions of object permanence quaint. Their scapes are not rooms and buildings, but gardens of colored light that look like mental noise to us