I think sometimes on what the future of the web holds. I have seen everything from simple html script to full blows Ajax applications. Some yesterday asked me what was the future of the Web, as in what was the next big thing. I though about his question and decided to play Nostradumus and give out my predictions:

Prediction 1: The Death of the operating System(Hosted Applications)
 
Web 3.0 all about the hosted applications. What does this mean? This means that what ever OS you are using DOESN'T MATTER any more. I predict a huge jump in MAC users and Linux. Everything you need will now be a web application meaning that you don't need vista, Mac OS X or Linux, all you need is a operating system tha can support a web browser.
Prediction 2: Single Page Websites(AJAX is comming):
Imagine going to a ecommerce site such as Amazon and entering a product that you would like to purchase. Clicking on the search button will open a panel on the page where you can scroll through the products you would like to purchase. After seeing something that you would like to buy you click on the "Buy" link that opens another panel where you enter you credit card and shipping information and click purchase which pops up a LightBox window with your receipt.Ajax is going to make all this and more possible. There will be a smaller and smaller seperation between desktop app and web apps in the future.
Prediction 3: Group Driven Content
We have seen Community driven content( YouTube, Digg, etc) and we seen user driven content (MySpace, Friendster, Facebook) hell we even seen a single person drive content(fark.com). The next step? It will be group driven content. The problem with content today is that there is a) too many items that you have no interest in b) With Rss feeders most of the content is already seen by the time you log on to your favorite content driven sites and c) A lot of the content bears no interest to you. This is where group driven content will emerge. It might be a group of friends sharing links or a class room researching dinosaurs, the possibilities are endless.

 Prediction  4: Death of Capcha, Open ID's turn?

It has been tried before(Passport anyone?) but Open ID has a chance to succeed. CAPTCHA is going the way of the dodo. Its stupid and getting harder and harder to use. I have to sometimes enter it three times before I can even make out the letters and words (and pray to god they are not case sensitive). Open ID might change that, it will validate you as a person and be the Social Security number of the web( ya like thats going to work)

I will revisit this next year and see how many predictions came true tell then.