- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:08:45 +0200
- To: Graham Klyne <GK-lists@ninebynine.org>
- Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
On 30 March 2010 13:03, Graham Klyne <GK-lists@ninebynine.org> wrote: > Are we really mired? I'm not sure I'd agree. > > The semantic web and web of data succeed when they are invisible, as > possibly suggested by "Connoly's bane": > [[ > The bane of my existence is doing things that I know the computer could do > for me. > ]] > -- http://www.nature.com/nature/webmatters/xml/xml.html Probably the most important quote from the last century, in my opinion. Nutshell. > What people notice, where we are mired, is in my view all those places where > the Semantic Web has not yet reached. Which, granted, is still most aspects > of information handling. But I also think a good deal of progress has been > made. It's not always called "Semantic Web" or "Web of Data", but there are > increasingly ways in which information can flow between applications. True. > So if we judge success by the new things that we can do, then I suspect this > sense of mire will be with us for some time. But if our touchstone is the > old tedious things we no longer have to do, then a different perspective is > offered. Trouble is, work is a gas (*) and expands to fill available > capacity ... I think an awful lot of the old things have to go away before > "ordinary people" really start to notice. Some people see a glass half full of water, others see a glass half full of gas. Sorry Graham. (damn, hope that hasn't been said before!)
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