there will always be people overly optimistic and overly pessimistic about anything in the world so i wont take the case with case with SW as an exception. On the otherhand we shouldn't an option just because it there doesn't seems anyone asking for it. When Faraday found a way to create electircty he thought that was a useful invention since nobody uses or is asking for electicity. I don't see _everyone_ to be using RDFs but this can be used to solve many problems that no other technology can boast of. This is especially true since more and more data is coming to web and we need a better way to analyse/search/present that data to the end users looking for it. But coming to the main point, i don't see why semantic web as envisioned by its main proponents shouldn't work. I am not saying that first attempt at it will be last one but an honest attempt is much better than some untested opinions :). What we need is a) a NLP system (similar to the one in www.opencalais.com) that converts the data on the web to its semantic form(rdf/owl etc) for much broader set of concepts. b) a store for this data from a) c) a reasoner for data stored in b) As I see it a) is the hardest part and ignoring performance/scalability issues, b) and c) already exists. Its the lack of a) that is keeping them from achieving anything great with semantic web.
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