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• To: "DuCharme Bob (LNG-CHO)" <bob.ducharme@l...>
• Subject: Re: Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1 (was Re: InfoWorld agrees with Elliote Rusty Harold)
• From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@b...>
• Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 09:46:27 -0400
• Cc: "'Bob Foster'" <bob@o...>, XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
• Organization: Booz Allen Hamilton
• References: <FEF4858E8AB32D4EAC2CF2A7D85386EBE53924@l...>

"DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO)" wrote:
> 
> >> Google is to "the semantic web" as CompuServe was to "the web".
> 
> >Google is to "the semantic web" as Cleveland is to Xanadu.
> 
> I'm not sure of the intent of this analogy--is it supposed to imply that the
> semantic web is much more wonderful than Google, or that, like Xanadu
> (Coleridge's or Ted Nelson's), the semantic web is simply a well-documented
> fantasy that won't ever exist, as opposed to an existing entity where people
> get real work done, like Google and Cleveland?

Or simply that Google is mundane (apologies to those who live in
Cleveland) ;)

Kind Regards,
Joe Chiusano
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
Strategy and Technology Consultants to the World

 
> Or better yet, continuing with the parallels to Nelson's Xanadu and Len's
> SGML/HyTime analogy, did you mean that the semantic web is something that
> will inspire great ideas that get implemented in a different, more practical
> project?
> 
> Bob
> 
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Joseph Chiusano
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