oHere is a link to a good list of predictions. The following is the most interesting to me. Could turn out to be vry useful.
Grassroots Use of Web 2.0 Ideas Will Be A Big Story - Why didn't the federal government do something like Katrinalist? Why couldn't they have gone on TV and mobilized the populace to gather the information that was needed? Because they just didn't think of it is why. But high profile successes like Katrinalist and CivicSpace show how harnessing collective intelligence and real-time leveraging of the two-way Web tremendously improved people's lives in a bad situation. It's making everyone sit back and think of the possibilities. And expect that it will become common for people to mobilize on the fly and use our ubiquitous Web connectivity for good works when bad things happen. Or even just to get constituents in an uproar on an issue. I expect lots of conferences and research/position papers to be issued and eventually even public policy will form around making proper use of these essential and potentially life-saving techniques.
Link: Web 2.0 Predictions for 2006 (web2.wsj2.com)
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