The diffusion of technology through the mass market is always an interesting phenomenon to watch. IM was "cool" to me in the mid 1990's. My generation has been using IM for close to a decade, but as we all know it takes time for the masses to pick up new technologies, and this past year has apparently been a boom time for instant messaging.
Some of the technologies I expect to see boom in the next 2 - 5 years are Syndication (RSS / ATOM) and BitTorrent (or another "smart" P2P technology). Each of these technologies is pretty mainstream to those always looking for what's next, but to the masses they are still way to hard to use to really have a great impact.
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