Fast forward 25 years, what will audio be like?

No music allowed on the plantation.

I wish I could share your optimism about the near future. The trajectory I see has us fully indentured and thoroughly under control of the plutocrats who are taking control of everything from the Supreme Court to the food sources. DNA and GPS will prove to be formidable control and punishment tools. We will be competing desperately for any opportunity to earn any amount of money and we will have nowhere to house a system even if we could buy one.

Picture the West Virginia coal mining town represented in literature and song. The stores and the housing all belong to the company who will evict you for the slightest provocation. All of the rights you had bestowed by the vestiges of organized labor have been lost. No limits on days or hours worked. No vacations, sick days or holidays. No raises. You work until you no longer can and are then discarded. Since the company controls both your wages and your cost of living, they can calibrate both to keep you in debt for life.

Under circumstances like that, audio will be an impossible luxury. You'll be making your own instruments from discarded objects and whatever you can scrounge from the remnants of Mother Nature. The good news is you will be able to sing the blues like never before. 2039

Working people have been steadily losing ground for 30 years. Our rights and protections are steadily eroding at the hands of a ruthless plutocracy. What is in place to prevent my predictions from actually happening? It can happen here. I know this because I see it happening. Best you all open your eyes and look around rather than believing the manufactured reality being sold by the mass media.
Of course, if this tragedy is somehow averted I think the prediction about wireless speakers, etc. for the masses and electronic implants for everyone are none too far fetched. This phone thing is headed somewhere we might not like.
I'm almost 67 so I'm not sure as to whether or not I'm around in 25 years.

Another potentially disastrous scenario involves runaway inflation. What if very briefly your life savings are only enough of a dozen eggs? How many CDs or downloads would you be buying then?