Mining will continue, network hashing rate will continue to grow and difficulty will continue to go up until mining is a losing prospect.
People run SETI@home for $0.00, so as long as people can make $0.01 mining, they're going to do it.
/agree 100%
people will mine for the optical illusion of free money being generated by an idle pc. no matter how many calculations you throw at it there will always be a % that just dont get it