The way I understand the future of TEI is by learning from the past, or specifically my past. I will let someone more worthy provide a more generalised set of proposals, I will look at the different ways I have used TEI encoded documents, which I hope will show the trajectory of my thoughts about how TEI could be used in the future.
He CC'ed Martin Odersky, the lead designer of Scala and Typesafe’s Chief Architect. Given that the two people best-situated to improve Scala had just asked me about my experience over the past two years of using Scala, I wrote a long, considered, brutally honest response.