The name of the game...

The name of the game is organization, synthesis, and navigation.

Organization - The various modalities of the internet (blogs, social networks, static/dynamic web pages, flash movies, open source, etc.)

Synthesis - How is this information at these various addresses synthesized, that is to say can we begin to synthesize information from various sources, so as to begin to get rid of redundancies? Can search engines (or some other app-perhaps some sort of data mining technology) synthesize this information so that when you type in a search you are not presented with 564,000 webpages on subject X (I never look past page 3 anyway) but rather an intelligent synthesis of those results. So that perhaps instead of a chronology that lists webpage A, webpage B, webpage C, ad infinitum, (which contains perhaps a personal blog, a wikipedia page, a science journal, an excerpt from a NY times article, a forum discussion-all with varying biases, relevancies, lengths) we are presented with an intelligent synthesis of this information, perhaps via some sort of powerful data mining algorithm similar to that of Amazon...?

Navigation - Who owns the web? That is to say barring any top-down conspiracy theories and what have you, is it not reasonable to suggest that Google owns a large portion of it? Not sure how many searches Google has daily, I'd venture to say it's somewhere in the hundred millions if not more, but is not right to assume that whatever algorithm/classification method they're using to index all the information that currently exists virtually; it is they who currently "present" the faceted surface of the web to you. They control what is shown and what is deemed irrelevant. Google acts as my home page and I would say it acts as a veritable "gate" to that differentiated mass of electrons we so dutifully dub, The Web.

Thoughts about a "walking physical web..." More to come later? Web 3.0-Physical space and virtual space merging...