I absolutely agree with your insights about how it will likely evolve, especially regarding the prosumer (semantic publishing enabled out-of-the-box in popular publishing platforms like blogs and wikis, vastly improved information retrieval on the consumer side).

http://dustin-burke.com/blog/2009/12/04/semantic-annotation-and-the-tipping-point-for-semantic-web/

Best,
Dustin

A good indicator of paradigm shift is when a major aspect of human behavior changes along with technology change. And so just this week we see another harbinger of potential behavior change enabled by technology, the just announced Google Wave ( http://wave.google.com/ ) This most likely will be another major component in game change. What fun, and I’m starting to thing this may be happening faster than I originally thought, I wonder what amazing thing will be announced next week?

You may have some competition for the web 3.0 naming rights. These folks think it is thin client – cloud computing:

http://d7.allthingsd.com/20090526/welcome-to-web-30/

However, I tend to think you are on to something more fundamental in changing how we interact with information, not just how convenient it is to get to the same old stuff.

And also, to get useful info on the small screens of mobile devices, it will help if the technology can help us sort through the glut and get exactly what we need.

So perhaps both are right…handling information better on the back end or cloud/server side with semantic data and then delivering it just in time and in digestible chunks to our mobile computing device.

CJ