“The Next Web aka Web 3.0” and Silverlight's importance to it.

I have recently been having some debates on Silverlight / AIRs importance to the web. Some of these people in the discussion often say that AJAX enabled web sites are enough for what you need on the web. I whole heartedly disagree with this assessment, so I thought I would make a blog posting about why I feel the importance of RIA development on the web is an important next step for our view of the web in the coming years ...