• Read Write Web, Wednesday, October 28, 2009 3:25 PM

Five years from now, expect a Web dominated by the Chinese-language and social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time. That's according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who said as much during an interview at last week's Gartner conference. He also said figuring out how to rank real-time social content has emerged as "the great challenge of the age."

Also, today's teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years -- a belief that doesn't bode well for Twitter, which has yet to catch on among many young adults. What's more, we can expect broadband performance to be well above 100MB, which will erase any distribution distinctions between TV and the Web.

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