I think it will be the other way around. Major changes are afoot in the world, and these will have profound effect on every part of our lives, not just the "web

I think it will be the other way around. Major changes are afoot in the world, and these will have profound effect on every part of our lives, not just the "web". Severe problems with the economy will cripple some large internet-based businesses while letting others thrive. Lighter-weight efforts on the web will do well and be better positioned to take advantage of these changes. Larger less agile efforts will fall on hard times. A major war is likely as a result of economic issues and resulting political instability. Efforts of major countries spent trying to prepare for "Cyberwarfare" are a bust, with organizations (not countries, per se) easily able to take out major parts of the web with ease. This is the impetus to create a new set of intranetworks, including one for business transactions, that will eventually be used by most future (net-enabled) appliances. Basically, this decade will be the beginning of the of end of the "wild west" internet, and the dawn of reliable and restricted set of privately-managed and government-managed intranetworks, evolving from the current cellular networks (currently incapable of handling such traffic, but that won't always be the case).