Monday, February 21, 2011

Arranging Knowledge - Excellent Quote by Adam Smith (II)


This builds on a previous post:


In many ways, I think the Semantic Web intends to fulfill the initial vision of Adam Smith. However, the approach used by the Semantic Web community falls short of what is needed to achieve the goal.

After more than ten years of work and a large amount of funding, the Semantic Web is not a day-to-day tool to organize the information contained in web pages or to provide machine understandable semantics. Other related social networking technologies such as Facebook and Twitter have far surpassed the Semantic Web in popularity and usefulness.

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