If the past 40 years are a guide to the future, then the lifestyle we currently define as "upper-middle class" will be redefined as "poverty" and will be available to virtually everyone, including people who can't even be bothered to find a job.

People will continue to complain about the declining middle class, how the median family can barely afford to live in a 4000 sq ft house with a robotic kitchen/laundry/bathroom and about how unaffordable their stem cell therapy and cloned organs are [1]. They'll watch TV news reports lamenting the bad economy on their 108,000p 10' 3d full immersion TV's, while the uber rich (income inequality will go up as well) do much the same thing, but in a 100,000sq ft house and a 50' TV. Also, the quality of stem cell therapy and robotic surgery available to the rich will be slightly greater.

[1] They will of course lump all medical goods and services together under the catch-all term "health care".

[edit: clarified that I'm thinking about 40 years here.]

And one of the major purposes of using C is to write fast libraries that can then be called from high level languages.

The most interesting thing is that most pattern matching algorithms up to then got slower with longer match strings, but Boyer-Moore actually got faster!

To quote Majikthise: "Bloody hell, now that is what I call thinking."...