Here’s cool bit from Technology Review with short responses from a number of luminaries when asked where the Web will be in five to ten years.
A sample of the responders:
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and inventor of the Web; Cambridge, MA
Vint Cerf
Vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google and co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet; McLean, VA
Richard Stallman
Main developer of the GNU/Linux system and founder of the Free Software Movement; Cambridge, MA
David Kirkpatrick 