Hmm 2027?
I would think by that time nitro burning vehicles would be completely outlawed as the cancer of California legislation spreads to the rest of the country . . . .
Advances in battery technology will come to a screeching halt as the growing liberal bleeding heart population elects the first transgender Independent into office and legislation is passed to ban all "unnecessary" raping of our planet's resources, the only electric power available to RC will be in the form of solar power, which as we know will be as worthess as the liberal transgender president we have elected to office . . . .
Mainstream combustion engines will be atomic water-burning engines with parts that don't wear out with all the power of a popcorn fart and as frustrating as a henpecking housewife . . . and of course these engines will be mass produce by robotic machines in China, non-rebuildable and completely devoid of nuts, bolts, and other "annoying" attachment objects, rendering them impossible to upgrade . . .
Secret splinter groups, identified only by a secret handshake and a cryptic tatoo will assemble in basements and bomb shelters across the country, exchanging black market "oldschool" nitro parts and holding secret midnight bash sessions in the middle of the desert under the light of burning torches, burning fuel distilled in converted whiskey stills . . . .
The AE, Losi, Traxxas, and HPI debate will finally come to an end as they will all now be owned by Microsoft . . . . hence you won't be able to even start the engine until you register your private key, and any cracked versions of "MSRC" will automatically generate a signal to the central offices in Washington which will activate an RC neutron bomb that will target your neighborhood, knocking out all electronic devices for a minimum of two hours until the Software Police arrive . . .
Related to this change, violent crime runs rampant as policing organizations are now also owned by Microsoft, and the emphasis is on storming houses at 3AM to confiscate pirated software, other crimes are addressed as "user-complicated issues" . . . .
Butt no matter what changes in RC, or how it actually advances, we can be certain of one thing . . . .
Some people still won't have a clue how to tune their engines!