FW: A question on what the 'future web will resemble'

Some time ago I, and several other colleagues, was asked by my managing director if I could help out answering what the "Future Web Will Resemble". The following was my email reply to him, but I think it holds up as a blog post as well. I have expanded/clarified it slightly and also corrected obvious spelling mistakes or punctuation.

For me personally: I think the future of the web will be more geared towards offline, only managed online, so these are some that pop up in my head right now. First the ingredients:

Facebook novelty wears off

There is already talks about "Facebook adaption rate in UK dropping off" and similar for most online social networking sites. Facebook suicides are common, I have several friends who have killed their Facebook profiles. In short, after the first "love" has died out with social networking people start to think sites like Facebook actually drain more energy than it gives. Besides, deleting apps you never wanted sent by "friends" that you have lost touch with (probably for a reason), isn't all that it's cracked up to be.

Details - can't see the forest for all the trees

I have spoken about the details as a topic and their importance within web design/development elsewhere but just to continue on the same topic I read this article at A List Apart today which delves further into the importance of details when presenting creative concepts to clients, and getting it 100% right.

Now, all of the tips given in that article are sound and reasonable…