Mary Poppins and the Web of the Future: Search, Share, Social, Semantics, and Sugar

The Web of the future will without doubts be very different from what we have nowadays. In this paper, we try to give a very high-level overview of the main aspects that will forge the new Web, having a look at five main S's: search, share, social, semantics, and the glue component that can keep them together, and let the user digest the new shifts: sugar, in its various aspects. Finally, we end with another hidden S, that last but not least, should enter sooner rather than later into the science for a new Web: Silly Games