The Shape of Things To Come (#scio10 take-away)

Today, just my own broad take-away message from this weekend's ScienceOnline 2010 conference...
(If you read a lot of science blogs you'll likely see some wrap-ups to the just-ended conference, or you may already have encountered it on social networking sites -- #scio10 ):

In recent years several writers have criticized the Web, and especially the blogosphere, for 'dumbing down' society;