I don't know about future prices. If they're higher then I'll feel good about the chips I bought in the past but complain about current prices. If they're lower then the reverse will be true. What I do think is exciting about the future is information technology. Somehow and someway (maybe for profit, maybe not) it all gets tied together. Pick the Thunderbird Hotel in Vegas. Follow the hotel from its construction and mob ties, it's brief ownership by Caesars World, renamed the Silverbird, then the El Rancho. See lots of pictures and photos of the casino, its facade, airial views. Bios and photos of the owners. All known chips, tokens, dice, ashtrays, etc. Articles contributed by the many Vegas historians. Eventually searchable video libraries of people and places. Everything listed in best known chronological order. As errors are discovered or new information is collected then that immediately is incorporated. What used to take years of information collecting from many fragmented sources is all there. There are many chip web sites (including this one) that are the clear beginnings of that future. One concern is that we not lose track of those individuals who collected and preserved much of that history.