Further Reading
Books
Rule the Web: How to Do Anything and Everything on the Internet---Better, Faster, Easier
by Mark Frauenfelder. This is essentially an instruction manual for the web. It will greatly increase your ability to make use of the abundance of the web.
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
by David Weinberger.
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams.
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
by Chris Anderson
Web Sites
TED = Technology, Entertainment, Design Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers.
The Long Now Foundation is concerned with the long term future measured in thousands of years and what these trends mean to us now.