Next trends:
1. Privacy - this is way bigger issue and concern than anyone probably realizes. From provider side, tons needs to be done to be sane and communicate where you stand on various things under your control or that could cause you to be impacted.
From consumer side [biz and actual normal peasant folks] this is about insurance against ID theft. About isolating themselves from their viewing habits online. I call it life insurance, if you want to have a life in the near future.
2. Self Hosting - Refer to #1. More folks are going to boomerang back to old steady process of self hosting in house, in home, etc. But now with abundant lower power devices that are server capable and proliferation of wireless signals, the place a server can and will be is limitless - at least below flight cruising altitude.
3. Localism - more people are going to see the wisdom, depending on country or state to host things in official datacenters, but on a local basis. In the same state notably. Perhaps in some limited hamlets out there where certain strategic advantages.
4. Fractured centralization - sooooo much of what is the web today has been consolidated into a few wayyyy too big companies. These storage silos of public trust have proven to be insecure, subject to government whims, even outright tapped. People will continue to move away from these entities and toward other upstarts and alternatives. Big opportunity for new companies to develop strong offerings that do one thing well and that's it. The Walmart is Google is everything portal of doom model 2.x is nearing end of fashion.
5. New mobile OS / player. Ideally someone that gets they should not be Android, but able to run Android and ideally said player means run Android anywhere - any device, any browser, etc. That's how the the giant sloth Google gets slayed in a big way. Especially where such OS / player afford granular controls, ways to block out annoying asshole embedded shitware features. I swear Android / Google must have kickback schema with cell cos to consumer asshole amounts of bandwidth and run up folks bills. They probably make more on said racket than any other aspect of Assdroid.
In strict tech-bation form, I see more and more interest going into Docker and similar container isolation competitors. Very abstract like Cloud, like distributed, etc. It's nerd food at best until someone bundles and packages things that are simple to click and deploy. Then it will encroach / shuffle the VPS / Cloud market share a bit.
Anycast is hot around here, but more nerd fiddling. Talking about need for redundancy and high availability. These aren't ingredients for mom's cat picture website. They are more nerd solutions and aspiring businesses and strange use cases. There is a market there alright, not denying that.
[PS: all typos are mine.. I've earned them... busy busy]
