AR/AV, AI, and chat bots will continue to evolve and find their sweet spot.
JavaScript Symbol and Generators will likely go unnoticed by most front-end developers.
More developers will divorce themselves from plain JavaScript and try tomarryanother. But, just like in marital divorce one always takes most of the same problems with them to the greener grass and little actually changes. Preferences and values just get re-prioritized and history will repeat itself.
Webpack 4 will happen, and be better, due to competition!
Continued exploration for the ideal CSS solution for a tree of UI components will not cease.