Given the title, not at all what I expected. He keeps hitting home on 'this is just the beginning' and I can't think of a phrase that is more correct for our time. I likewise agree very strongly with prediction as a fools game. Sir Clarke said it long ago and if he couldn't, does anyone really think the folks who have followed could or can? I quote the great Wiki quoting Sir Arthur:

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.