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Published online 26 May 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060522-21

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The next wave of the web

Web gurus and geeks descended on Edinburgh, UK, this week for www2006. Chairing the panel 'The Next Wave of the Web' was Nigel Shadbolt, an artificial intelligence researcher at the University of Southampton, UK, and deputy president of the British Computer Society. Declan Butler asks him about the Web's progress.

You've spent the week at www2006. What developments got you most excited?

The biggest theme is certainly what David Brown, chairman of Motorola in the UK, described as "the device formerly known as the mobile phone".

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