I honestly don't see BTC going anywhere in the future. It would be remembered as a first of its kind, but there is no real value behind it.
Fiat money derives their value more or less from the creditworthiness of the issuing entity/country while real goods such as gold derive value from its usage. BTC has none. The only thing BTC has is hype.
Think BTC as a rare color crap that one can produce by eating certain very spicy pepper and it's valued by the gram. And as each gram is produced, one needs to eat/be fed more of that horrible pepper to produce another gram of it. But deep down, it's still just shit.
The only benefit of that shit is that no one knows who has/where a particular gram of shit came from.
What someone should do is to make processing power into a monetary form. Let's say a complex simulation requires 20 computer years of processing to complete, instead of buying super computers, researchers can break the processing into small pieces and when certain amount of pieces are processed, a coin is issued and that coin can be traded for something else. As more processing power is gathered, more pieces need to be processed before a coin would be issued.
When BTC was first announced, that's exactly what I thought it would do... but it's really just some idea a dude came up to waste time and processing power.