Where We See the Web Going:

• Eventually, greater bandwidth and faster speeds for transfer of Web information
  
  
• More multimedia, audio and video (and more wasted bandwidth)
  
  
• Some disillusionment with the Web and backlash against it
  
  
• Greater emphasis on obtaining results from those who pay for Web sites
  
  
• Greater emphasis on providing useful content and value to site visitors
  
  
• More dialogue, interaction and development of communities
  
  
• Shift from broadcasting (same content to everyone) to narrowcasting (content geared to smaller groups with common interests) to unicasting (customization of content for individual visitor)
  
  
• Greater use of intranets (private Web sites) for internal communication and extranets for organization to organization interactions and business
  
  
• Wireless: design not just for the Web but for handhelds, cell phones, etc.
  
  
• Integration with other media, television and telephone so that use of the Web and Internet is transparent and nearly instinctive.

You may also be interested in our thoughts on what will have value to visitors in the future environment.