Game-changing innovations and hyped trends tend to be singular events. At the moment, three next-big-thing trends are attempting to coexist.

For more than three decades, investors have typically had a game-changing innovation or next-big-thing technology to captivate their attention and wallet. Perhaps the best example is the advent and proliferation of the internet in the mid-1990s, which sent the benchmark S&P 500 ( ^GSPC -0.64% ) , iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI -0.20% ) , and growth-focused Nasdaq Composite ( ^IXIC -1.15% ) soaring.

The internet paved the way for businesses to move beyond their traditional storefronts. It also revolutionized investing and broke down information barriers that had previously existed between Wall Street and Main Stree

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