Predications are a needs based and what I’m seeing technologists need right now are tools to effectively handle concurrency, conmen and distribution of the wealth(personal information).

Right now everyone is talking about identity, open data, sharing of content across sites securely.
There’s aggravation for web developers with the lack of innovation going on; Ruby on Rails has hit the Gartner hypecurve’s trough of disillusion and browser manufacturers are baring the brunt of bored developers.
The only area I see keeping minds up at night involve concurrency. Reddit is riddled with it. Scaling to many cores, distributing that data and the privacy issues that arise with distribution. Identity and reputation again at the forefront. Wasn’t 2007 meant to be the year of online identity?
Media is as always the driving force. Viral video’s, viral devices and the sharing involved with anything viral. Twitter is set to lead the echo-chamber charge here. With the Qik-fix of live-video becoming Seesmic in proportions with all the hot air sending Kyte flying. All signs point to concurrency. Farming out of identical functions to apply to the many processes(and people) that make further processes light work. Soon those processes will reach astronomical proportions thanks to the Comet now orbiting the planet. It’s Publish-Subscribe prime time. HTTP and HTML is are once again getting a work-over with Waka due as a following revision.

2008 will be the year of concurrency.

Best of all *cough*, all this concurrency will bring people(through their social graphs) together into tribe like fashion once more. We’re seeing it now with ID cards and draconian ISP filter laws the Australian government is trying to enact which will only bolster the peer-to-peer revolution that follows into action. Again, all because of porn.