Almost Instant Web Sites

Now running web sites involves ftping files to servers, and running complex perl scripts. The future is Static Site Generation - at least for a short while :)

One future might be where we create our content through hosted template systems, where maybe writing to the web is as easy as composing email and everything is stored in a database (cough blogging).

But beyond that, what if we had the ability to create self-contained web sites with not only HTML but interactive elements? Like I am running my presentation from my laptop as local HTML files, but to share I have to push everything to the web.