Douglas Wolt at Wired writes an article on possible scenarios in future of newspapers (full article at http://www.wired.com/dualperspectives/article/news/2009/07/dp_newspaper_wired0714).
In this article Douglas foresees a future of information asa a commodity and “One possible future of news as a commodity is hyperlocal information — the sort of thing that’s already becoming popularized by services like Yelp, whose incarnation as an iPhone app offers directions to nearby restaurants and services, complete with with user reviews.”
I think that information as a commodity and hyperlocalized is the near future, while in the mid term an information also that adds the following characteristics will be the target:
– personalization (means not for my cluster, but for me)
– comparability (menas the ability to achieve an information with automatic comparison form different sources)
– scalability (means ability to have relevant informations at a glance and then decide the level of detail)
This post also at http://www.wired.com/dualperspectives/article/news/2009/07/dp_newspaper_wired0714
How I see the world 