No remote is really future proof, unless it had WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Z-Wave, and an expansion port in it for whatever may come next. of course that remote would be very expensive.

Standard remotes have used IR to control equipment, but that hasn't stopped manufactureers of equipment from changing from the standard of control. Sony used Bluetooth on the PS3, B&O went to a higher IR frequency then the remotes used at the time, Samsung uses some kind of RF for it's qwerty remote on it's tv's, and so on. More and more devices are starting to use Rf as a secondary control, which may turn into the only way to control them in the future.

So, nothing can be truly future proof.