I read the title and I thought "this is going to say 'because it's better'. When does that correlate with massive technology standard popularity?".<p>What's next for CSS? Probably CSS Current_Version+1, designed by committee, late, missing really desirable and important features and including really lame and awkward features, not exhaustively specified and not implemented completely by anything other than Opera, and not done in the same way on all browsers.<p>"Someone should write an article on why technologists are so excited/desperate for the future"<p>Nobody ever writes about a utopian future filled with backwards compatibility and design by committee. Is the future more rosy because it works as an imagined place without the thorns and caterpillars and fungi and drought and hay fever and pollen allergies and cheap imported roses and Monsanto seeds?