Personal agents will become ubiquitous.

Unprotected resources will become overwhelmed.

The Net will shift by necessity to a pay-as-you-go system.

Agents will use e-cash as a bargaining chip and as a metric for performance.

Agent frameworks become the new medium in which agents live, reproduce, and thrive.

Costs become the energy (Lyapunov) function that damps unstable oscillations and rewards successful efficient agents.

Agent frameworks become prevalent as they charge for their resources; distributed computing becomes a reality.

Agents are produced using genetic and neural learning algorithms akin to artificial life using the costs as the feedback metric.