Ready for some interface design pr0n? Then prepare yourself for Aurora:

…a concept video presenting one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept browser series. Aurora explores new ways people could interact with the Web in the future based on projected technological trends and real-world scenarios.

This is, to my mind, quite a linear extrapolation from current usage. A pretty fair guess at the world we will all reside in within a few years.

For more detail, click through to the site, where they have chunked up the video into four parts, with a helpful commentary explaining the technologies they see intersecting to accomplish the scenes depicted in the video.

UPDATE – Adaptive Path have put up some background on this in their blog, including the scenarios that were developed and how they workshopped this vision of the future:

Through a series of group exercises, we identified three major trends that we thought would have the biggest impact on the web:

• Augmented Reality: The gap is closing between the Web and the world. Services that know where you are and adapt accordingly will become commonplace. The web becomes fully integrated into every physical environment.
• Data Abundance: There’s more data available to us all the time — both the data we produce intentionally and the data we throw off as a by-product of other activities. The web will play a key role in how people access, manage, and make sense of all that data.
• Virtual Identity: People are increasingly expected to have a digital presence as well as a physical one. We inhabit spaces online, but we also create them through our personal expression and participation in the digital realm.