I think that the Memristor (it's a "new" type of electrical component) could really allow great strides in memory performance and could change the industry as we know it.
The Memristor also has similarities to in how it works and how neurons in the brain work, which could open up the doors for more intelligent systems, think robot cars, planes, trains ect.
This has good and bad sides, as the jobs people can do that machines cannot will shrink, in theory this could lead to an automated utopia or dystopia.
But I think there will be a few steps,
1 VR systems allow people to work remotely.
2 Manual and hazardous work can be done by VR controlled Robots.
3 All forms of business move into the VR space.
But allow companies to capture what they do and train AI/Robots to do the same jobs.
Thankfully people can still play in VR and therefore we could have a utopian Virtual Reality!
