Technical solutions attract money -- because so many still believe
there *must* be a silver bullet?
What if the technology world took the approach to have a three year
moratorium on such things as the Semantic Web? What if they could
attract the same resouces and put those resources to put in
Reading through these exchanges and through the Technology Review article
was my first attempt to understand what the Semantic Web really is.
Personally, I can see clear value in this, both from the view of refining
searches to a much higher degree than is currently possible; and from the
view
Hi John
You are right to speculate about these issues. Remember that old cliche,
Be careful for what you wish, you may get it. There are many fables
which also echo these ideas, including Midas.
There are those who are so enthralled with the technological
possibilities that they become
I'm not sure if I understand the semantic web; but if I do, I don't
think I want it.
Technically, the sematic web requires meta data to be added to the url.
In addition to complicating the url it presupposes knowing how others
will view or use the data. Currently, meta tags embedded in the
for that
yet TBL I dont think..
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Subject: Re: [DDN] Tim Berners-Lee: Weaving A Semantic Web
I'm not sure if I
fyi, MIT Technology Review has an interview with TB-L in its latest
issue. The very first question they ask him is basically, why is no one
particularly excited about this new work of yours? So the article is
able to delve into a bit more of a detailed response than what he gave
during his
