“The web of the future will be much like the web today, only more people, better applications, more opportunities to be inundated with unwelcome information, a lot less privacy, and a lot more interactivity. Some will look at it and think back to now with nostalgia. Others will continue to have their eyes focused forward, even if doing so causes them to miss much of what’s good now.
One other thing: if the trend I’m seeing at techmeme and elsewhere continues, the future web won’t have a place for women. ”
— Shelley Powers, commenting on John Markoff’s NYTimes piece that, among other things, called the Semantic Web Web 3.o, a phrase I would like to avoid.