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If anyone ever had any doubt about the coming reality of ubiquitous cryptography, here is the next move.

Oblivious Transfer, ZKPs, SMPC, Functional Encryption, Attribute-Based Encryption, (better) cryptocurrency are all things I expect to see before FHE.

Homomorphic encapsulates some of this, no? Certainly functional crypto, c.f. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-45239-0...

And there will certainly be many more advances, but if/when functional crypto gets totally sorted out it will change everything.

Yes, it's more general. The schemes that just do functional encryption are more efficient because they don't need to do everything else FHE needs to.