Back in the days when Bitcoin was changing from owner for a couple of bucks a piece, people were visualizing how things would be when it would reach $1000 for the first ever time - target achieved. I am usually quite skeptical in terms of these predictions, but why should this not become reality as well?

Currently there are just over 16.4 million coins in circulation, which basically means that there are around ~4.6 million coins left to be minted.

Till the end of this year ~270K BTC will be minted. Taking the coins left to mint down to ~4.33 million.
In whole 2018 ~648K BTC will be minted. Taking the coins left to mint down to ~3.68 million.
In whole 2019 ~648K BTC will be minted. Taking the coins left to mint down to ~3.03 million.
In 2020 till the estimated block halving date ~350K BTC will be minted. Taking the coins left to mint down to ~2.68 million.

Not much left to mint.