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.