google is set to release semantic search on it's search engine. of course, i am not able to get a firm release date for this technology but bing already uses a version of it. this is like empowering each person with his/her own research firm. much time will be saved as search becomes more and more intelligent. our own learning will get onto a whole new accelerated geometry. will wikipedia become irrelevant - i guess it will have to morph itself into new kinds of knowledge flows. also look at wolfram alpha and the siri project which are also ways to get computers to respond to natural language.
a simple explication of the semantic web to put google and microsoft's efforts in context. in short, relationality builds context and thus meaning (semantics):
key term - "internet of things" - where everything is connected to the web and hence to everything else - we all will become part of a single system/organism - transparency will lead to convenience...
another video that helps build an understanding of the coming semantic web from the bottom up is as follows:
take aways - 1. the importance of ontologies in creating semantics i.e. the data organization of web 3.0, 2. tim berners-lee's sentiment - "if the semantic web is something i can imagine today, then we have failed" - the shape of the semantic web is hard to conceptualize today...
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