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I'd really like to see a world like Shirow's Ghost in the Shell, but I doubt it'll happen all that quickly or easily.
As for the market, I think market gaps will shrink as most of what we do gets automated by intelligent agents and people overseeing those agents in hours, and the IMers with a hand in the black hat development will be the only ones still making a living as freelancers.
As it is, a LOT of the internet is being junked up by what IMers do. Seriously, it's getting hard to find good information on Google nowadays, because of all the marketing crap. Even when you know how to use Google properly (with colons and inverted commas) you still get a lot of crap. I've actually gone back to using the YellowPages for business, and for information, I'll go to Wikipedia or LexusNexus first now (depending on level of depth I'm after).
But I don't worry... I can always get back into events management, and I'm hoping my art gets to the point that people will want to buy it. I used to do ok (just) from selling stock photos as well.
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