here are a few data points
- Mozilla will have builtin SVG pretty soon
- adobe has updated their SVG viewer
- many applications have SVG support now
- high resolution displays will make most bitmap graphics impractical
- print and web will converge further
maybe we will finally see rich vector graphics, and new user interfaces that do not suck, and are accessible? also, a google search that could interpret vector graphics would be far superior to the fuzzy matches we get today one presumes. back in 1997, when dave was still a thought leader, he called for the lineto moveto web.