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Now that the web is clearly social, what hap­pens when the web becomes emo­tional?

Streams are already under pres­sure from the tech­no­rati as expired. What will fol­low the stream (which is a liq­uid, really) as a metaphor for the state of the infor­ma­tion layer? Gases, or plas­mas? What will gases and plas­mas made of infor­ma­tion feel like expe­ri­en­tially? How will they behave?

Does it even make sense to think about this in terms of the states of mat­ter, or will infor­ma­tion exhibit dif­fer­ent states and take dif­fer­ent forms?