extrapolate the trend out to 2040
25 years from now?
Let's look at 25 year ago:
* Google, facebook, twitter and youtube did not exist
* The first "web browser" had only just been made, and "the internet" was not a thing that the common man knew existed. And if you were to access "the internet" you probably did it via dialup, using a modem, over a telephone line.
* The smartphone had not been invented, and if you were one of the very few phone with a cellular phone, the brand new digital AMPS models had just arrived, that weren't 4 inches thick, and featured a 1-2 line black and green display. Mostly likely, however, you didn't have this, nor even a "mobile walkabout" house in your house, but rather a wall attached to wall that had no display of any kind.
* Your computer, if you were of the few people who had one at home, was probably either an Intel 386 or 486, running DOS, a text-based operating system. "Windows" version 3 had only recently been deployed, and it was an entirely optional shell run from the command line.
* Your IBM PC probably didn't have a mouse unless you went out of your way to get one. "Mice" were for apples. And if you did have a mouse on a PC, it plugged into a serial com port, and you had to configure that port manually so that it didn't interfere with your sound card.
* Downloadable porn came in 256 colors, was probably 640x480 pixels, and took about a minute to download a single image
* Software came on floppy disk[sic]. Often, on "floppy" disks that were actually floppy, and your computer probably had two different disk drives so you could read either disk type.
* CDs existed, but they were used primarily for music. Because, you know, people bought music. From stores. Stores that still sold vinyl records and cassette tapes.
* DVDs did not exist. And while foot long "laserdiscs" did exist, you probably didn't have one. Instead, you probably had a video cassette player that played movies from magnetic tape that you physically rented from a store.
A lot can happen in 25 years.