·Provides valuable insight into the progress and direction of development of the World Wide Web and its likely future applications in science and business.

·Reviews the prospects for the Web to develop intelligent services (such as online businesses, games, purchases, new search capabilities, and accessibility to trustworthy information).

·Offers a view for thinking about thinking on the Web.

·The companion website offers access to supplemental text, specialized information, additional examples, demos, tools reference material, and advanced applications.

H. Peter Alesso is an Internet innovator with twenty years' research experience at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). As engineering group leader at LLNL, he led a team of computer scientists and engineers in a wide range of Internet research projects.

Craig F. Smith is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) with over thirty years' experience in research and development for applications of advanced technologies. He currently serves as the Lawrence Livermore Chair Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.