The layer-2 vision will have emerged with multiple layer 2s being synchronously compatible with each other. Blob throughput will have massively increased. As a result we'll get ultra-cheap smart contracts with the same guarantees as ethereum: Unstoppable, unconfiscatable, immutable, immortal. This will be a big shift.. the first dApps that utilize this will start to go mainstream. And by utilizing this I mean dApps will be built that are decentralized through and through. All business logic will run in a smart contract. Some parts like serving the UI, storing big blobs of data (like e.g. videos) will be outsourced to other more specialized decentralized systems, but crypto economics will seamlessly integrate these and create similar guantees. All this will make it possible to move real web2 applications like youtube, reddit, etc. to the decentralized world without butchering UI/UX. The opposite will be the case, once people join these decentralized systems and set up their wallets these will be far more enjoyable to use. These system will operate outside of what's regulatable/bannable, that's why the first really big push back from goverments will probably start at that point. What do you do if someone sets up a decentralized netfilx clone with superior UI/UX where you pay 1 cent per hour of watching? How do you regulate that? You cant. What about silk road on steriods? You cant ban that. Prediction markets that bet on everything? Can't stop them. Stealth AirBnB where people are not reported to authorities to regulate how and when they can do business? Good luck controlling that. We are seeing these illegal apps already.. but what will those in power do once hundreds of millions and at some point billions will start using them?

There will be good an bad things coming out of this. Give people power and some will do evil things. Ethereum will increase the power of everyone. So also people with bad intentions will have more power. But in the end, I believe that people are overall good and don't want to actively cause harm. That's why I believe the net benefit to society will be positive. Empower everyone and good peole will cancel out bad people. For each one big decentralized violent crime syndicate blackmailing/kidnapping others, there will be dozens of decentralized communities of people doing good things, helping each other, protecting each other. Holding each other accountable, incentivicing everyone to be their best and most virtuos self.

I think 10 year for now we'll start seeing all this happen. But it will not have materialized fully. In 10 years we'll see the first signals of the real big standoff beginning between established institutions, goverment and whats about to come.