User experience will continue to drive the Web’s evolution. Web protocols might need to change to accommodate the various IO channels—such as speech—which could obviate the need for users to type URLs.
Machines might continue to use URLs or URIs to access Web resources, but the internal mechanism should be abstracted away from users.
The way to access information needs to evolve, as does the way in which information is harnessed.
An emerging breed of applications aggregates, summarizes, and annotates information on the Web. This category of machine-generated information could result in entire multimedia magazines produced without any human involvement.