What will agents be like in 20 yrs time?

[hyperD]

Like prostitution, the old businesses never change their mission statements through the ages, but keep on charging nonetheless.

[MrMark]

Someone will publish a book entitled "The Bumper Book of References". A lot of agents will kill each other attempting to steal this book for themselves.

[Spacecadet]

Will they fly and have hover capability, or will they remain lying cheating two-faced scum?

they will have special hair gel emitting glands in their scalp

They will have learnt how to extract references from contractors by means of setting up fake companies, staging a fake interview and then after contracts are almost agreed getting the contractor to hand over references.
The fake company will then magically disappear into the night

[thunderlizard]

They will be insisting on 3 years commercial experience of Windows 2029.