Journalists loves lists, and they can be fun to read, but this doesn't have much value for people trying to predict the future. Let us not forget the oft-quote

Journalists loves lists, and they can be fun to read, but this doesn't have much value for people trying to predict the future. Let us not forget the oft-quoted words of His Eminence Alan Kay: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." The fact is that web 3.0 (shudders in self-loathing at having used the term) doesn't exist yet. If you could see the future, it would be blank. In 1998, web search wasn't the future. Google made it the future. If we don't already know what the future holds, it's no use predicting it--it won't exist until a company comes along and tells us what it is. For the more ambitious among us, that's the role we're looking to play when we start a company--not to predict the future, but to define it.