"Technology" is set for a long winter of commoditization and consolidation. Technology as a standalone sector will become sleepy with all the excitement being in every other sector of the economy leveraging cheaper and better technology for their own benefit.
Another is that AI/ML will replace illustrators, musicians, vocalists, and the like. That "metaverse" will take over gaming and lead to powerful new filmmaking techniques. I'm building something in this space and I can tell you that these technologies are powerful because people who aren't "traditionally skilled" are using these tools to create amazing content and excel. This stuff is going to eat the world.
Not sure about the other domains you mentioned, but I'm sure they have ardent believers too.
Minecraft is plenty cool and my four year old is making amazing stuff in it. But increasing the resolution, frame rate, and immersiveness of that experience is decidedly evolutionary, not revolutionary.
And there was already no money in music or graphics design before the machines showed up, so I'm not sure how that's going to justify the investment bubble.
https://youtu.be/QM8qOoYK3Fs (mildly NSFW)
https://youtu.be/2-1G8JUWoG8 (same techniques but narrative)
Pretty soon everyone is going to have access to world class creative tools that give them the same capabilities that previously only studios with institutional capital had.
This is the creative decade.
Don't even talk about them in the same sentence as useless shit like the metaverse or blockchain tech.
Point me to a single DL-exclusive company that has an annual turnover of >1 billion dollars and is profitable.