On the Horizon for Agaric Design: Cooler than Web 2.0

As someone wise said (actually, the British actor Michael Caine), "Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath."

So what might be coming up to the surface for Agaric (and perhaps the Internet)?  Here's a few technologies and standards we're getting into:

• Microformats: whose appeal is dead simplicity for potentially powerful uses.
• The simple part is here: "small HTML additions to your webpages, used to make your data readable by machines as well as humans."
• The power and purpose is partly here, and more coming: "Right now, microformats can be used to let users easily extract people/event information from your website for their organiser software (like Outlook). It also submits your documents into Technorati’s new microformat search engine. In the near future, microformats will help both you and your work be better ranked by conventional search engines like Google. They will also make your data accessible to other sites – like event organisers – who in turn will promote your site."
• See more at Microformats.org
• One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), and the incredible amount of dedication, ingenuitiy, and sheer person-hours and brainpower going into developing a sub-$100 laptop with the explicit purpose of getting these laptops into the hands of individual children all over the world: one laptop per child, as learning tools "created expressly for the world's poorest children living in its most remote environments."
• Related to this, they've made CrossMark their "flexible, lightweight textual markup language."  I would like to add this to the input-export filter in Drupal so the best open source content management system for collaborative work, and the sites that run it, will be ready for the kids learning their markup language on OLPC computers.  I'd love if other people in the Drupal community interested in helping make Drupal ready for this project to contact me.
• Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML), "an XML-based format that allows exchange of outline-structured information between applications running on different operating systems and environments," is a whole other crazy matter!  I'd really like – somehow – to bring this to Drupal, and be able to have a mirror, or a partial mirror, of a site in an application.