hmmm so the time cut off according to that clock is only 2 months?
so 3 years 10 months instead of 4 years?
doesn't seem to have as much effect as I would have thought (the rapid daily mining power increases)
It will likely go back up if one takes into account the eventual crash of difficulty in a year or two when the most modern ASICs will be out and market will be over saturated and deployment will overshoot profitability. Unless exchange rate keeps rising then all bets are off.
Once deployed ASICs will keep mining. Miner may never make a positive return but shutting down will only ensure a larger loss. If difficulty reaches or exceeds break even efficiency (electricial cost = value of BTC mined) then new hardware sales will die off but existing units will remain online.
Unless the exchange drops 75%+ I wouldn't expect to see a major drop in difficulty.