The Bandwith Demands of Increasingly Complex Web Sites and Content Will Slow Us Down

Yeah, but no. For at least two reasons. First, the bandwith bottleneck will be greatly reduced by the developpement of new compression techniques, like fractal algorithms. Second, we are still thinking backwards. We are thinking : "how can i put this material reality (images, sounds videos, etc...) into that virtual reality ?". You may invert the question and ask : "how can i create that beautiful image / sound / video / virtual world by using the simplest algorithms possible ?