[davidy123]

I think everyone focuses on the major trends. But there are important background/side trends.

As people realize the drawbacks of silos and the benefit of more intentionally crafted data, Linked Data and other network relative data schemes will become more popular, in addition to their uses for AI systems (which should be the biggest "site" of them all, and something LD is created for).

I would characterize AI as 80% accurate so far. But getting one in five things wrong is not good enough for many tasks. Human/machine oriented data formats like Linked Data will help close this gap, as contributed by projects like Wikidata and increasingly smaller scale apps through better defined SEO (schema.org), for example. Breakthroughs in easily working with Linked Data at day to day levels would be helpful here, right now libraries even for specific domains are very nuts and bolts compared to ORM libraries. For common querying, perhaps GraphQL with network schemas will start to gain mainstream popularity.

We should also see breakthroughs in open standards data carrier formats, like decentralized wallets and credentials. These will have have significant impact because they are essentially like free-floating sites that interact with any site.