What will be big in 10 years?

No one knows what will be big years down the road, they can only use educated guesses and pray they're right. My grandfather was told about Walmart when they were starting up and invested early with them and same with BRK.A (Buffet's Stock) he made a LOT of money in the stock market, but took great risks as he didn't have much money back then.

You need to talk to those who know their shit, you need to learn it too, so then through experience, skill, and educated guessing you have a much higher chance as knowing what will be big and what won't be big, but there will always be a risk.

Possibly people will be saying "If only I got into it 10 years ago" in a decade, but we won't know till it happens, so get involved now and put effort into it and you'll hopefully be doing well in ten years while those you know say "If only I did that when you did"

Neuroprosthetics.
Biologic Computing.
Artificial Intelligence.
Nanotechnology.
Genetic Engineering.

If you can figure out a way to integrate these with marketing, you will be a millionaire.
Maybe buy out some domains you think will be in high demand, then auction them off.

3D Scanning and Printing is going to be a huge industry within the next 10 years. Once the prices on the machines come down to an affordable level for the general public, an Amazon site promoting those products will be a huge hit.

I have already started my book titled "How to Jailbreak your implant chip"

It's gonna be huge!!

Looks like we are at the peak of trends, nothing new again only changes and updates to existing or falling trends..

Sorry am one pessimist .

Oh and nano-tech

That I see as being huge. Maybe throw biological computers in as well

Who knows... I prefer to focus on the present. There are several profitable things to do online nowadays and I prefer to take advantage of them rather than think about future methods. When the future comes we will see.

Dating will be huge. Design the perfect girl, check out via PayPal (Yes paypal will still be annoying the crap out of us in 2025) download the pattern and print her.

There will be no banks ONLY Paypal ...

Great ideas. I'm just trying to figure out the present!

What will be popular? One word: ALIENS

I'll be doing what I've been doing since I started in 2007. Selling some sort of offer. And advertising it in front of the right people.

I'm not one to jump on trends, I like proven and reliable and something that will be around forever.

1. have something to sell ( EX: burgers)
2. advertise it in front of the best crowd (EX: Hungry people)

IT security & Privacy

Probably my stomach if I keep on eating these delicious Oreo Cookies...

The waist measurement of today's average 40-year-old in Western countries.

Living on Mars?
How to control ghosts?
Lose weight in space?
Oxygen machines?
Make your own cloud?
How to wear clothes?
Dodge the bullet?

I don't know... These types of things coming in my mind right now.

Online store will be more widely in the future.

Figuring out what to do with all the empty storefront real estate, as nobody buys from stores anymore

Optimize Press 8.0

What is big today will be big 10 years from now: flabby thighs, dating/marriage issues, bad breath, and thinning hair. Chasing after tomorrow's big hit, most likely will distract you from the perennial big hits.

Robotics
virtual reality
nanotechnology
all sorts of human - computer interaction
new health solutions

Look up something called BuyReply.

It's a service that allows people to 'buy instantly' from real life advertising. Billboards, magazines, TV, the cinema, restaurants, rock concerts and so on.

This is going to be a big part of eCommerce in the future. I help run an eCommerce store and I'm building an eCommerce mobile app for my company which will launch to a list of 140,000+ people but what we should be doing is moving towards a BuyReply way of business.

Think about it, you're at a football game and Ferez scores, within 30 seconds the big screen flashes "Text ferez to 55673 for Ferez's Shirt! Only £35.60! You have 3 minutes!" In 3 minutes 4376 cards have been charged, shirt sizes picked and a list of invoices sent to the Chinese manufacture, who will print the customized shirts within 24 hours, overnight airfreight will get your shirt ordered on Saturday turning up to your desk first thing Monday morning.

Perhaps it's a bad hangover for some, but you can't help but admire how brilliant it all is. Oh man I love making systems.

BuyReply is just one startup, there are several in hot competition to get ahead of each other. Worth looking into.

What will Internet entrepreneurship be like in 10 years? That is an incredibly hard question to answer. Imagine trying to answer that in 2003. How correct do you think you would be? It is a hard question.

I can see nano tech being bigger than what it is now. The government will finally get that chip in our necks like that want so they can watch us.....lol

Bing will be big and the big G will have become the lower case g.

Online shopping/spending is going to get bigger and bigger until it becomes the norm by then. So will the opportunities for people to make money only online through products, content, etc. but will become more compeititve. We definately still haven't seen the full shift from offline to online in most industries yet.

Not quite. Even the GDP in PPP China still trails the US marginally but should overtake in 2015, perhaps even next year. But in 2025 it will be very significantly bigger. And I imagine the US will fall further behind as it will not be able to brain drain emerging nations like China, India to the extent they do currently. Why go to the US when the opportunities at home are just as good?

I have some ideas on what MIGHT be big in ten years, but honestly, I don't spend much time thinking about it. There will definitely another social media website that will be as big, if not bigger, than Twitter, that's almost a certainty.

I think looking at trends would give us some clues on what might be big. Faithpopcorn's website has a link called "Trendbank" that's pretty insightful.

Faith Popcorn's | Brain Reserve

.....................Waitaminute, aren't we going to be fighting the Terminators by then?

RoD

I expect that an advance in hologram technology will make html, wordpress, email and the internet obsolete.

Half Life 3 will be big!

Wearable computing.
Very advanced versions of Google Glass (from g and others)
Terminator type abilities (zoom with your eyes, look up info, etc)
Renewable energy and renewable batteries (lifetime batteries for cars, watches, and anything else)
Smart everything taken to the extreme (smart homes, smart cars, smart streets, etc)

Hopefully a cure for many life-threatening diseases like cancer

Mr Fusion - Cheap personal high energy power packs rendering all conventional network power generation and distribution obsolete.

Why?
1. Lots of advances in nuclear fusion being made.
2. The benefits are awesome.
3. We desperately need it before we suck the planet dry.
4. Predicted by "Back to the Future".

Healthcare in China. Mother Earth will exact revenge for all the pollution I saw when I lived there.

10 Years?

My guess would be Healthcare (we're all getting older) and Oil & Gas (we still haven't found the energy silver bullet)

And Finance will find it's feet again.

Well I've read from this interesting article of trends for the future of work that outsourcing of high level knowledge worker jobs are going to increase. So, I guess I suggest for us to spend time and invest on studying something (like IT Jobs) that's going to get you somewhere in the future. Make sure that it is something that you think wouldn't be automated.

I've got a feeling that digital printing will be big in the future, renewable energies will also surge as crude depletes, fracking is also becoming popular.

You're right about trends, if you can identify them you can make a killing.

The funeral home business.

I don't see how one can even forsee that far in the future. For one with every technological advance in technology we advance that much farther that much more quickly.
I do not even see computers in 10 years nor what we consider the internet.

I see table tops, walls, refrigerators even with holograms of our desktop. I see maybe your brain working the computer by thought processes instead of using a keyboard but the very least it will all be voice by then for sure with programs that actually work to convert voice to text.

No body Know that
and those who know they won't share it coz they will be keeping ideas to them to make moeny, not to share it on forum

the Chinese market will grow and IM will focus there

Apart from my three your old daughter, it's hard to judge really
because there are so many things that didn't exist 10 years
ago and nobody imagined that we would even need them,
like smart phones. There was a TED talk that I listened some
time ago on this same question. Have to go look it up
again.

-Ray Edwards

Whatever you're selling in 10 years, or should I say "wherever".....

One thing's for sure, Paypal will be there!

What's going to be big in the next ten years? My website. Not trying to be the next Facebook or Twitter but I want to be something special with my NFL related website.

Really surprised at the amount of warriors saying - Just worry about the present. Ten years may be a little far, but any serious business person should be looking toward the future.

IM is not going to look the same at all in 10 years. In the past few years, some marketers' businesses have been decimated by Google updates and more recently by the changes in Gmail. It is impossible for a technology based business to remain stagnant. You are either moving forward or falling behind.

Y-Combinator, arguable the most elite start-up accelerator in the world, is specifically looking for people that are seeking the next big thing in marketing. That should tell you something. There is a huge opportunity for people that that can develop better ways to market products and services. Any rational marketer/entrepreneur will always be looking toward the future.

I think blogging and Internet marketing will be so big that we will finally teach them in University. It will be a new training program and field

I don't know about 10 years, but in 5 years, 3D printing will be the new wood work.

Very hard to know sire.

In ten year's I hope to be on my new yacht drinking a cocktail in full retirement and away from the world of online/offline marketing

I wish if Google were answering this question!

Porn will still be big.

What will be big 10 years from now: people posting on forums asking what will be big in 10 years.

10 years? I'd settle for knowing what's going to be big next year.

As some have mentioned above, following trends, China is certainly the mover and shaker economically however some Europeans have suggested they lack the innovation. Perhaps there is something in that to consider...

Augmented reality is going to be huge. Tried to grab that domain as soon as i heard about Google Glass but someone got there first.

3D printing. 'nuff said.

sex robots. definitely sex robots.

easily 3d printing. And the difference between the 3d printers we have ow and the 3d printers in 10 years time will be the same as the difference between nintendo NES and xbox360

Healthcare, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and human-machine interaction.

I'm holding out for the flying cars we've been promised since the 50's

Hover boards.

All people will engage to social media sites.

there are so many emerging technologies just take your pick any of them well do.

Internet marketing is not executed merely with regular devices like desktop computer pcs.
The mobile market is taking a new leap and many individuals view a common internet websites along with work lookups using their tablets or smartphones. When you are able to manage, your marketing initiatives you will get know the new world associated with Internet Marketing.
The expansion of social media marketing and the outset of new products used as means for interaction, advertising would be challenging using old ways to market product or services online.

Fuel will be a lot more expensive. Perhaps learn scooter repair. Also, grow food in your back yard because that will be big in nine years. Expect a lot of jobs will be out sourced in our new era. They cannot out source jobs like um AC repair. Think about global warming. Like that will be one HOT job in coming years.

Investing in micro-gravity manufacturing companies. The field of material science is exploding with new startup companies resulting from experiments done over the past quarter of a century in low earth orbit. This will revolutionize industry far greater than the first Industrial Revolution. For example, tests performed on several shuttle missions have proven that in low gravity conditions, uniquely strong exotic metal alloys and other materials can be formed. Similar results have been found in semiconductor research that chips could be produced with speeds thousands of times faster than anything now available. And pharmaceutical manufacturing in LEO will result in new medicines and antibiotics with greater purity than anything produced on Earth. The cost of space entry is dropping rapidly, and in recent years, discussion of potentially large-scale commercial facilities in LEO has grown considerably.

It's impossible to predict with trends changing so rapidly all the time. I like to try and read up on new technology all the time to see if the "next big thing" is round the corner and so I can get in on it early. Perhaps it will be some sort of augmented reality home gaming console?

--Things affecting the Baby Boomers - health, retirement, downsizing, etc
--Small, mobile gadgets and information that can be viewed/used on them.

moon condos

I think if Football carries on to die it may start to make Football blogs fail because apparently FA have said there are only around about 2 million footballers.

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I think renewable energy most likely.

I see lot of scammers and hackers ruining IM

People getting busier than ever! I think anything "one stop push button" will be huge. Push button hair implants, push button hair removal, push button heart implant, blood-free surgery.

REAL Push button software that will make you millionaire overnight )

I think virtual currencies are here to stay and hit big for the next 10 years and beyond.

I have often wondered this question and feel that though a few Fads will survive many will not have a place in the Market, so below I will have a few Fundamental areas that will still thrive in a decade.

#1 Energy- With the shortage of Oil and Gas it is important for all countries to find a number of energy sources that would allow their own economy to move forward (this could be from wind, water, natural veg/seed oil, solar etc)

#2 Big Data- In about 30-40 years it is claimed their will be around 9Billion people on the Planet. So better ways to get agriculture pushed forward and production done will be needed, using analytics and data to get things done faster, cheaper and while getting maximum resources. (But the Big data principle is not limited to agriculture, just this area is soooo huge)

#3 Information- With more people going to access the Internet over the coming years, they will need to find areas and places to learn and be entertained. So getting authority sites, apps, videos, products in place is going to be the big I feel.

#4 Security - As we all know traditional banking is dead. So with the influx of people coming online, in a more mobile way we need to find simple and safe ways for them to do transactions, so looking into data/mobile/computer protection is always good news for entrepreneurs.

There's my 2 cents lol.

Amazon
Google
Bitcoin
China

Video marketing will be huge! The people who are big on YouTube right now will be very rich in 10 years

chip in you hand or forehead? Most people hate freedom and want security so anything to support that will be big!

Clean drinking water.

Will cost more then oil, trust me.

Don't know if 10 years are too short but it's proven that drinking water will be sparse over time.

G.

Apart from the obvious things, like my bank account and my property portfolio

What about Bitcoin? Haven't seen it mentioned yet. There's a few other web-based currencies too, what's everyone's opinion on this kinda thing?

Edit: Just see the above post. Completely agree. Although, there's no example in history of a Fiat Currency not resorting back to a value of 0. So there's room for growth in Gold, Silver and Bitcoin in that respect. Hard to be certain on time frames however..

Nursing, robotics, nanotechnologies..

More people will migrate to Mars and use Paypal as a gateway of sending money from Mars to Earth..

Of course, they will be using Skype and Google Hangout to communicate

Some of the better colleges realizing their course model is outdated and begin to offer Internet Entrepreneurship due to the fact that a growing number of people are tired of repeating High School the first year of college, taking a maze of related and unrelated mandated courses in order to be able to take their precious degree to corporate America and having them offer you sh*t, only to be buried in debt for the opportunity to do so.