Richard MacManus has posted on The State Of Web Development – Ajax set to surpass Flash in ‘07.

This is in reference to a report on the subject (free preview).

The current stats are good, but take a look at the future. Ajax is here to stay.

What will be the next big thing on the Web?

• Real-time visual 3D view and navigation of a site
• more standards compliance, responsible use of technologies and semantics
• portable information progress
• Paradigm shift: you will not search the Web for information. You will define what you want, and the Web will collect it for you.
• Voice interactivity/navigation
• “…total immersion. Cell phones, PDAs, laptops, PCs, TVs – so many different ways exist to access the Web and more are added every day. The Web is going to become –if it hasn’t already – the hub on which the world spins.”
• “Integration of Internet technologies into everyday life that does not involve a desktop or even a mobile/cell/PDA”