Frank Wales on Tue, 30 Dec 2003 08:32:49 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> the semantic web for beginners |
On 12/29/03 11:16, Ian Dickson wrote: > I love all this Semantic Web talk. > > Mainly because I haven't seen so much of a gap between theory and > reality since the 5 Year Plans of Stalin's era. You know, as I read Ian's description, I was struck by how strongly his comments about the shortcomings of present semantic web work mirrored the shortcomings of artificial intelligence, what with there being two apparent forms (one almost trivial and one ludicrously ambitious), a critical dependence on weakly-formulated knowledge from non-computing domains, a belief in the power of a critical mass of information to solve problems somehow, a general vagueness that pervades the whole topic, and apparent enthusiasm for how wonderful things will be when it's all done. It's probably just me being cynical, though. -- Frank Wales [frank@limov.com] # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net