That is crazy. To me that's no different that injecting code, or using the old java exploits to auto run installations. Especially since they were doing it unbeknownst to the users. More like future sentencing, rather than future of mining.

This would be very nice to see, although as others said its a rather vague prediction and was obviously based off the current trends. Most of them in the prediction booth just want to have one of those "yay, I said that" moments.

Its rather impossible to speculate on that since success is rather random or based on external factors.