Nice post. +1 On 2008-04 -25, at 05:36, Dan Brickley wrote: > It's a big planet, and many of its (our...) governments do truly > hideous things to people in other parts of it. [...] > There are other, better ways to reach people, persuade people of > evidence, showing people what life elsewhere is like. And figuring > out how to improve those mechanisms is 100% on-topic for this list: > the Semantic Web is a project to improve the Web so that it better > reflects what is happening in the world around us, a world seen > through layers competing, interlinked claims and counter-claims. > (Anyone who tells you otherwise has got lost in the detail.) [...] > I firmly believe the Web will mature to give us a better claim- > based, provenance-based infrastructure for evaluating such claims. > But it'll take time, and every year that passes without it is one in > which people will remain dangerously misinformed about the world > around them. [...] > Dan > > -- > Semantic Web IG chair > http://danbri.org/ >Received on Sunday, 27 April 2008 22:53:01 GMT
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