The Future of the Web?

I recently attended a lecture by Tiffany Shlain, founder of the Webby Awards (considered by many to award the Oscars of the web world). She made several interesting predictions as to what the future will bring, and had definite openly-expressed opinions. She recommended the PEW American & Internet Life as a resource regarding the evolution of the web. She offered up volunteermatch.org as an example of how a problem was solved that couldn't be solved before. This website was able to link volunteers to needs during the recent Katrina tragedy in a way that would have been impossible without the web. Also discussed was how anyone posting on a website, blog, etc., should never assume that it won't be read and that email should be scratched and a phone call made if liability or censorship was a concern. We also talked about the devices of the future: cell phones. Now, computers are used to view websites and we're concerned that our kids will find bad stuff on the computer, TV,or other "home system" and do what we can to block them out! In the future ... cell phones and PDAs will be the tool to just about everything, from scanning purchases, placing online orders, and viewing websites. And the internet will undoubtedly be blamed for the problems that develop from this. Also mentioned was voice recognition and further transformation of email. Interesting times, these!