We don't have to wait for the future before we can start to see the manifest of its consequences, because its already happening right now as we speak, just as many already know, that gold is performing well and even at it all time high, those that have invested long time ago would have been profitable in it, but still yet, people now prefer the use of a digital asset than the physical or centralized type, which makes bitcoin in cryptocurrency the edge over every other investment assets in consideration.
People prefer to use digital currency because most of them are looking for where to tap profit from, which gold is not given them that, only a few who are involved in bitcoin go into it because they need privacy and total control, as some of them don't even care about it but only chose it because it's the oldest with the highest market capitalization, which shows some level of trust and nothing more.