It may become more popular by expanding of internet but it is really important to get adopted by many resources for bitcoin to get popularity in practical world and to let new people start using it as a payment processor to pay daily spendings with it.
This is now becoming true. bitcoin is being accepted as payment by lots of source and marketplaces.
Dell, Namecheap, Perfectmoney and lots of big companies are accepting bitcoin now which surely make bitcoin money of future.
and lots of new individual coming to bitcoin every day. and of course the websites which made officially for bitcoin , give it a bright future.
As far as we get the report is concerned we should not think about it now. The future of our bitcoins I can see is very bright because everyday there are many users is joining and using bitcoins and I am sure one day it will be recognized by the whole world and will trade in bitcoins.
Yeah we really don't have to worry about the future of bitcoin, as gold is in surviving since long time same will go with bitcoin too, its never gonna die in future.