- Start of the movement from cloud/SaaS computing/storage to edge devices/client-side/on-prem.
- Amount of new successful SaaS orgs will decimate. The only 2 SaaS markets that will grow will be highly vertical/specialized or very big orgs offering commodity. They both will use value based pricing, but for the first growth will be sales-led and prices will be high, and the second will use product-led growth, and prices will be a race to the bottom of the market.
- Return to aspx/cgi-bin/single php/... files, as more and more services will simply bind together existing third party services.
- Return to server-side default first.
- People will start discovering P2P and start using it.
- Some variant of SQLite that you can run from the browser and update client-side will emerge. This might result in the re-discovery of offline web apps.
- A lot of AI driven content will appear, resulting in too much content and the need for a circle of trust (i.e. what are some good websites). Generic search might become less useful with things like ChatGPT, and something like the old webrings concept will probably emerge, although it might be differently implemented (i.e. a protocol, social media thing, ...)
bonus (as it's related to what I'm doing on a daily basis): something like the Metaverse will start emerging, but it will be web based using WebXR, in splintered/mostly gated communities. AR on mobile phones will become more accessible to consumers via phone, and a common way to interact with these things will emerge this year.