[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Tim BL Semantic Web article in Scientific American
No fear. Just an understanding that nothing that starts simple stays simple and marketing hype often hides a lack of knowledge, an unwillingness to know or even agendas too off-putting to talk about. Expensive solutions for non-problems are non-starters. I can take you to the shop in Soho and pay the specialty dress designer to cope with the weight that concentrates around your shoulders instead of your hips, give you form filling devices that distract the observer from the fact that the seams are double-sewn and your adam's apple dominates your neck, buy stillettos that push your chest forward but have extra strength so the slightly stumbling walk won't send you on to your bum... but at the end, all I get is an *ugly girl*. This isn't about gender, BTW: it is about false advertising, inflated expectations, and little surprises that might create nasty violent situations. Form. Fit. Function. Do the results justify the costs for the hazards of applying the means? Who is asking these questions at the W3C? Some public systems already collect and semantically link data in tremendous quantities. As these begin to aggregate by a unifying language, we don't know if the rules we use in day to day life apply. When they don't, we are at the edge of chaos. Life is exciting there. It is also dangerous. The evolution of the Semantic Web in terms of its ultimate effects is determined by those who can afford the metadata. Secondly, it will be affected by those with the skill to train the agents and authorize their goals. The concepts of legitimacy and authority cannot be reduced simply to trust in very large pervasive public systems. Nabster and the dot.bomb to name only two have dramatically shown the results of "turning the world upside down" and shaking out the change. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Al Snell [mailto:alaric@a...] That's just the marketing hype - don't be afraid. They're just talking about public distributed systems becoming mainstream, is all. Nothing really new!
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