[paulnelligan]

For posterity sake, I'd better answer my own questions:

- yes, unfortunately we're no longer building for the web, we're building for the facebook and google platforms, and it pisses me off no end, because more innovation is required. I only hope Google open up their API completely so that developers like me can build some cool shit on their platform

- energy crisis, I have no clue. But I really hope so. Climate crisis, same.

- Flying cars, seriously! http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/109522/20110207/flying-cars-... ... will probably never 'take off' though.

- Quantum Computers. I can only wildly imagine some crazy mind-reading computer who has nothing but benevolence and love for me so that I may be hooked up to it's matrix and suck on it's glorious god-like nipple. Google be thy name. Don't bloody wake me up!