Under $10 is pretty much guaranteed within like a year time.
And no, there will be no recovery, bitcoin is outdated and shown to be ineffective technology.
Just curious, not trying to start a war or anything, but if you think Bitcoin is a failure, why are you posting on the bitcointalk forum? If it were me, and I had decided something was useless, I would just move on and find a new interest. It's more fun to hang out with like-minded people!
The idea of bitcoin is good, the implementation is just horrible.
Take a look at NXT and see a bright future.