There s widespread concern about the lack of young people involved in the hobby of amateur astronomy, in comparison to what it was a couple of generations ago. I think that will continue. We embraced it perhaps because it was exotic, but mostly because it made us think big thoughts. Today s children have the future thrust on them in a dynamic, multimedia world, which wins out over the discipline of learning constellations and sometimes failed attempts to find things in the sky. But I think there ll be more twentysomething adults becoming involved as they discover astronomy for real, up-close and personal.
Forecasting is risky.
You could be wrong big time. But it s fun to speculate about the future.