There are interesting forces at work that are shaping the contours of the social web. The decisions and technologies that are created now and in the next several years will, in large part, determine whether the future of the web will remain open to tinkers and hackers alike, or become a very different kind of environment — more like TV and less like the web we've known.
This talk will examine emerging trends in social networks, speaking to changes in computing interfaces that spell out different consumer expectations of what computers should do and how they should be used, and will consider various technologies that may yet prevent the demise of the nascent free and open social web.
