I think the forms of communication are there, and they work well. What it's ripe for now is "convergence". Remember when your phone, internet, and TV were all s

I think the forms of communication are there, and they work well. What it's ripe for now is "convergence". Remember when your phone, internet, and TV were all separate things? Now it's just all IP packets coming over a big pipe (for most of us). Now, your phone, email, IM, SMS Facebook/Twitter/Google are all separate 'things'. I think we're in the early days of convergence, where all of these things are smooshing together. Think Google Voice (phone/sms) in your mailbox, or IM along with Voice/Video (Skype). And we still have too many identifiers... your skype id, your twitter id, your google + name, your home phone number your office phone number etc. etc. I really think the 'next big thing' will be the collapsing of all of these ID's and services into one agregator(probably google). I'm not saying it's a good thing, or that it will go smoothly, but it will happen.