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Handheld devices and mobile phones will offer easier access to the Web; this is the goal of [the World Wide Web Consortium's] recently launched Mobile Web Initiative. [The consortium's] Web Services will enable organizations to communicate data more efficiently and securely to their customers and suppliers. The Semantic Web will enable computers to do more useful work automatically, using the existing Web as a foundation.

One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn’t have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.

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