1.	So if the web browser is Visicalc, what will its Lotus 1-2-3 look like?
2.	One easy bet would be to take another look at the GUI desktop and look for creative ways to connect that to the net. In fact, Microsoft is doing that in Windows 2000, in the integration with WebDAV; while not a complete emulation of the local file system, it's close.
3.	But I think there's more promise in navigating from the opposite direction. Assuming that something like the web browser is the future platform for readers and writers, how would you navigate, from a software development standpoint, to something that did to the current web what Lotus did to Visicalc, or what the Mac did to PC-DOS?
4.	Interestingly, net-aware games, notably Quake, and chat clients such as ICQ are paving the way. As they build out and people create SimCity-like browsers for network-based desktops, we won't need what W3C is developing. Just as the file format for 1-2-3 became a standard, the formats used by these apps to transmit their information will become the standards of the next decade. If Yahoo isn't running the servers behind these networks, or AOL or Microsoft or Excite, CNET, TheGlobe, Tripod or Xoom or whoever, they aren't going to fully participate in the next wave of growth.