What if we could glimpse the technological landscape 30 years down the road? In this keynote, we'll take a guided journey through time - examining how past predictions collided with reality and what those misfires reveal about forecasting our digital future.

Robert Zemeckis imagined we'd be gliding above the ground in neon jumpsuits by 2015, while early software prophets confidently declared COBOL's extinction. These wildly divergent outcomes aren’t just amusing - they form a pattern that tells us something profound about how technology really evolves.

We'll connect the dots between physical innovation and software paradigm shifts, tracing how yesterday's science fiction quietly becomes tomorrow's tooling. Along the way, I'll draw on audience input to test assumptions and stress-check the trajectory ahead - not to crowdsource the future, but to illuminate it through shared perspective.

By the end, we won't just have a snapshot of what may come next. We'll have a clear sense of the mindset required to remain relevant as the next thing arrives.