Tim O'Reilly on the future

From Tim O'Reilly in the O'Reilly Network:

"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." I recently came across that quote from science-fiction writer William Gibson, and I've been repeating it ever since.

In Inventing the Future, O'Reilly offers his take on what's already here and and coming up fast.  Among his takes: wireless (as in community 802.11b networks), next generation search engines, web logs, instant messanging (between programs, not just people), and the one he spend most of the article on: spidering.