Short Term = Two to Four years.
Quantum Computers will come and go retail much much much earlier then anyone thought, so data encryption and cryptography will need to see a huge update, this is bigger than the Y2K bug, way, way bigger, the hacking capabilities of Quantum Computers are incomparable with anything we have now.
IoE (Internet of Everything) is soon here, we will see everything connected, new cheaper and smaller IoT devices are released continuously, so soon we will hit that sweet price/value point and there will be no question anymore, we will see things that make sense to have connected and things that make absolutely no sense to have connected.
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