- The future of the Web is a universal medium for the exchange of data
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          The future of the Web is a universal medium for the 
          exchange of data 
- This means applications should have access to data, too:
						- interconnection of personal information management
- personalized services (e.g., news)
- integrating heterogenous Web databases
- better search engines
- adaptive presentations (e.g., for PDA-s, phones)
- …
 “The bane of my existence is doing things that I know the computer could do for me” “The bane of my existence is doing things that I know the computer could do for me” – Dan Connolly, The XML Revolution