A Technology Breakout? Is there danger on the horizon?

Just a short post on something I have been thinking about.  Could all the work we have done here be wasted because of some technology breakout?  - maybe even something that is right in front of us now?  A "technology breakout" is something that always concerns the U.S. Military - probably all militaries - that a adversary will invent some new weapon that jumps ahead in technology and leaves our weapons and defenses useless.  The happen throughout military history - the crossbow, the gun, the tank, the atom bomb.  In our industry, while they may not alter the course of course of history, happen much more frequently then they do in other industries.  Right now social networking seems to be going through some radical changes - the huge sites Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook - maybe a dozen or so others, certainly aren't sitting still.  They will continue to innovate and have massive resources and market position to do so.  Everybody here knows there are sites like Ning where you can put up you own social network in a minute or two - they are getting better also.  Last week, Google Buzz took the world by storm and is already huge.  I can't even keep up with all the stuff happening in mobile networking - suddenly location based services seem to be all the rage.

I'm wondering if by working so hard to make our communities work with Dolphin, we are being lulled into a false sense of security.  Look into your crystal ball - will we be relevant a year from now?    What technologies do we need to incorporate to make sure we are relevant?  I can come up with a few maybe.  I think people really may prefer logging into our sites with their Google, Facebook or OpenID passwords and we should get ready for that.  I think "status updates" will become standardized.  I am worried a little about the advent of "groups" in some of these services - if it was done well, it cold make some of our sites irrelevant.

More questions than answers I know, but that year of waiting for D7 was brutal, and the world didn't sit still while were were doing that testing.  My sites are getting better, but they are still not even close to what I want them to be, and if I can't get them going fairly soon, I think the world will just pass me by.  What do you all see as the major threats, and opportunities, to the technology we all are using?