How much time should pass until we begin noticing changes? Personal computers has been around since the '70s, but they didn't make it into the masses because of the price primarily (and software somewhat lagging behind). There are no technological obstacles that could prevent bitcoin widespread adoption, so your examples are irrelevant. Visa and Mastercard transfer money even faster than blockchain, and how many people need online gambling or sex (beyond family)?
I don't know but it's not going to happen over night. My examples are very relevant but they were just a few. You can use practically any piece of technology and it's relevant. Nothing happens overnight. If computers took nearly two decades to become mainstream and the internet a decade why not bitcoin in the same time? Online gambling and sex aren't the only uses and again those are just two examples but it can be used for purchasing
anything online. Why did you leave out the remittance market? That's a multi-billion dollar industry alone and the people who use it are being raped by fees:
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/aug/18/global-remittance-industry-choking-billions-developing-worldI didn't leave out the question of remittance market, I told you that with Visas and Mastercards money transfers can be almost instant (notably faster that bitcoin blockchain confirmations are). But please don't raise the issue that these payment systems are centralized while bitcoin is not. It is not relevant to the matter at hand...
Technology is already here, but adoption is still lagging behind (to put it mildly)
Can I ask, if bitcoin is such a dead dog in your opinion why are you still here?
I didn't say (nor implied) that bitcoin is a dead dog. All I wanted to say is that we shouldn't expect significant expansion of the bitcoin universe in the future (read, higher exchange rates)...