These are some notes and interesting quotes from the World Economic Forum, where Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia among others discussed the future of the web.

Moderator: What is the next web?

Wales: The next web – I have no idea?

Wales continues: The broad cast model move towards increased activity. Everyone knows models like wikipedia can be successful. The future is probably in applying the same models in other things than text. It could be in music, workflow etc. A lot of interesting things will be seen in the browser space. Ajax enabled a lot, ajax is java but it works. More will follow. We have not seen enough innovation in the browser space from Microsoft which leaves room for a lot of new innovation.

Tero who is the chief entertainment officer for Nokia (ex Nokia CTO, which is an interesting shift of position that is symbolic for Nokias strategy change from technology to entertainment):

Chinese kids taught me that mobile is the next web. In the future it´s mobile first, then maybe in the ancient pc´s. The future web is about people and places in a deeper sense than today. The web will provide you with information about the world and opportunities around you as you move.

Another point that was argued was that the future web is all about  the customized manipulation to smaller pieces of data. The pieces that make up our individual identity. I can seamleesly combine this map, this information attached, for these people in unique ways where the information is not in silos like facebook or outlook but always accessable mashable etc. Manipulating data can be both good and bad. It will reanable the web for science. Silos are broken down. Dead things all around us will generate information. Disposable stickers communicating will be everywhere. It can be really exciting or really bad. Each one of us becomes a unit that is manipulated. Or we have more control.

Some great quotes:

Jean Luis Schiltz, minister of information Luxembourg:

Thank you for this great session. I am still as confused, but on a much higher level!

Tim Berners Lee (founder of the web):

The next web will go from documents to data

Tom Illube, Garlik:

In none of the technology sessions has anyone moaned about the financial markets….it´s because we are technology entrepreneurs and we don´t care. We are moving full speed ahead to change the world