Will the Stream follow the Web?

This article was in my Twine feed this morning (BTW, if you haven't signed up at Twine yet - do it now!). An excerpt:

The Web lives on top of the Internet's infrastructure much like software and documents live on top of an operating system on a computer. And just as the Web once emerged on top of the Internet, now something new is emerging on top of the Web: I call this the Stream. The Stream is what the Web is thinking and doing, right now. It's our collective stream of consciousness.

So is the stream yet another step toward our ultimate evolution to a soulless Borg-like existence? Well, not exactly. But yes.

[Is the Stream what comes after the Web?]