Will Foursquare Be a New Model for Information?

I enjoyed listening to Foursquare and The New York Times discuss the future packaging of information at a conference in New York City this week.

The NYT's Michael Zimbalist described how every object has “information shadows” that can be conjured at different times on different devices.

For instance, Foursquare might work with more media partners (most recently New York magazine) to repackage their content into bite-sized nuggets of information.

As you know, I'm a huge fan of Foursquare, but I feel like I'm one of few of my friends (doesn't seem very mainstream to me). Will Foursquare or another geolocation service like it become more widely adopted?