Look at the reddit community, we have nearly 26k subscribers, 2500 online sometimes. Growing so fast.
Future technological upgrades and research from Monero lab are simply huge: I2P Kovri, Multisig, Lightwallets, RuffCT, maybe Zidechains and pruning
Real world integration with Fluffyponies FFS into market places which will present XMR to millions of users
Gentlemen, Monero is a highly active, undervalued project. Add the decreasing emission to this and we will see prices around 500 USD not very far from now.
To borrow from a nice post I saved (and updated couple items) from reddit (Thanks JohnAlan):