Believe it or not, the future for consumers is exciting again:
>POWER9/Ryzen make it so that you can _finally_ have a meaningful upgrade
>OLED monitors with 200Hz+ refresh rates at 4k and beyond
>RTRT no longer a reverie
>Vulkan
>Wayland being usable, desktop Linux actually being good
>Programming losing its memetic status, may be seen as a respectable berth again
That's just off the top of my head. All we have to do now is hope that Trump puts the plutocrats in the ground. It wasn't the internet that ruined mankind, it was social media.