Festivals will not be slow in inaugurating on line events. In short, you can't go too far wrong when predicting more of the same. And of course with all the technical expertise we have these days, that means much much more than anyone would wish to contemplate. But there is a positive side to all this, and that is the inevitable reaction against it. No, it's really not worth even discussing the practical ways the publishing industry could be improved.
Life is too short.
But dullness never quite darkens the whole planet. In their own idiosyncratic fashion a few writers will always be looking for new departures. Someone out there will have the courage not to go to all the festivals, to shut the world out, to turn down all the silly assignments the press are throwing at him. Impossible to predict the subject matter. I suspect, but it's only a guess, that it will be about the workings of the mind, though in ways Woolf and Joyce never dreamt of.