(Yeah, I was upset at amtrak web/cybervoice/live person misinformation 4 days in a row, now 5)

Lmgtfy won’t fall apart completely, but it will produce interesting results. Mobi has been around for a while, and I know OTN was talking about it more than 3 years ago, maybe not the Kindle part.

Verizon and Google have conspired to mess w mobile intertubes, so yeah, those medical devices may need to pay up or else. Otherwise, just bc you don’t like entertainment, doesn’t mean it’s bad.

I’m not completely disagreeing, but you’re being typically dystopian

Since stuff on the web changes so quickly, people want important stuff locally – take Oracle docs, for example, people want mobi on their kindle.  Would that sentence even have made sense 3 years ago?

So that means the exact opposite of what Berners-Lee had in mind – just like with computers generating more paper, the tubes generate more local storage.  Then it’s all difficult to get as new media chokes the pipes.  Even literally, as medical monitoring devices can’t tell 911 you are choking because of cute kitties making the rounds.

Then, when things do work (say, some mechanism is employed to give adaptive priority to different messages), things that used to take weeks happen in cyber time.  This has already happened in stock trading, next we’ll see cyber-vultures – some one sets all their bill-pays up, loses job, accounts get ripped in seconds as every payee tries to get what they can.  We’re already seeing worse – people get their credit cards cancelled just because a different credit account got more than half used – stupid risk-assessment software doesn’t understand the lack of data it gets, like the fact that the different account has 0% interest.

Then things break…

How does having machines talking to machines to work out the most efficient method of ‘current interaction’ convince people to buy more stuff.  It would be nice but it sounds kind of utopian to me.

I have a hard time believing that the 'tubes can ever be converted to something that important. So, maybe it's time for the white coats to start over with a new 'tubes. Think Skynet 2.0 or HAL.

Don't get me wrong, what you're predicting sounds great; it's just really hard to see it happening in my lifetime. Plus, I have a high level of distrust for those types of ventures, and not just because movies tell me so.

The way I see it, the semantic web will represent the most important advance in human technology yet. It will help bring us to Kurzweil's “Technological Singularity”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_sing…. So I think it's kinda funny that people are talking about Twitter and advertising dollars. Just think. We're talking about bringing OOP to the real world. Potentially every object in the world (physical or non-physical), possessing attributes, capable of verbs, networked together… What objects relate and what value do the relationships bring (data mining)? Add artificial intelligence and intelligent agents. This is really serious stuff and I think that ethical researchers need to help prepare us for the inevitable…

I need more use cases to make this real, so we should chat about ways to do this in Connect and OraTweet.

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1) Does the consumer web care about what's better right now? Meh, I think Bilton's use cases appeal to the now, not to the what could be better. It's baby stepping.

2) Your post sounds like the mad scientist stuff that makes semantic web too heady for my taste.

3) Does all that stuff you mention support MySQL? Me doubts that. Most of the consumer web data out there are not stored in Oracle. The LAMP stack types won't buy Oracle Spatial and all those other great products. There's no capital for that, especially now. So, how can you realize all that potential?

And hey thanks for the trackback, while you leave one here, jerk

If you're interested in the confluence of Web 2.0, Social Computing (FOAF specifically) and the Semantic web, you should read “Linking Social Networks on the Web with FOAF: A Semantic Web Case Study. ” by Dr. Jennifer Golbeck from UMD. here's the link: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~golbeck/publications.shtml

The first time, I was all, “ugh, advertising”. The second time, I was like, “he's got a point”.

I'm so conditioned to ignoring ads, the thought of targeted ads is annoying by default, but you make an interesting point. Would it be better if it were actually valuable? Maybe.

That would bring broadcast TV to its knees. Why run an ad on broadcast TV with old school demographic information when you can run it online and use the semantic ad target thingy?

I might still hate advertising though, which makes me wonder if the answer lies in social advertising, e.g. you buy a product and get range of rebates if you share your purchase and any reviews with your network of friends. That adds a measure of trust to the equation.

Weird times.

I'd argue that “the improvement of advertising models” is not necessarily a downside to the semantic web. In my life, advertising models seem to be billboards, cold calling and mail drops. A smaller number of laser targeted adverts would be a welcome change – whilst saturation brand-building will only engender my enmity.

If I can ask my ad-manager-bot to recommend a bunch of $PRODUCTS meeting my requirements and ignore previously blocked advertisers, then great, bring on the semantic web!

APML seems like an excellent technology for ad servers to invest in but it would definitely need the ability to deal with temporal changes.