The next 5 years of web development

[JQ Johnson]

A couple more trends to chew on:

1/ increased variety of patron access to online materials.  Everything
from very high performance workstations with large color displays and
gigabit Internet access to handheld (Palm VI or WinCE successors?)
devices.

2/ continuing shift from a copyright/ownership paradigm to a license or
even pay as you go paradigm for access to materials.  The big traditional
content providers will continue to whittle away at public rights to
web-based materials (e.g. see the database bills currently in congress).

3/ increasingly soft line between entertainment industry and information
provision/access industry.

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