Re:Another year... (Score 1)

Well, I don't understand all and sundry writing off folks who have created history and are impacting our lifes to quite an extent .

No, Tim understands what he *wanted* the web to be. He's a very intelligent man, but he is by no means the difinitive word on what the web means. The people that use the web are. The web is a place defined by the people who view and put content on it. Those people have found uses for the web that Berners-Lee never imagined.

If you DID READ the actual article, he simply states that web is an infrastructure and people would always be come to use the system and provide solutions which nobody(of course including him) ever imagined. All he is saying now is the Web Infrastructure is moving in a certain direction, which he chose to call as "Semantic web". This new infrastructure would provide more expressiveness, real-world information modeling , easier information integration and increasing reasoning capabilities. And of course MORE OPPORTUNITIES..... Just a small proof of his claims, prime software vendors are already moving in this direction( http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/semantic_tec hnologies/index.html/) and have solutions in place to support what is being touted as "Semantic web" This is impacting the Systems integration business in a big way already and impacting industries such as Pharma, Oil & gas , and other information intensive businesses in a major way!!! Look around and ask the right people and you'd come to know