Semantic Web – Love it or…

Tim Berners Lee – the father of the internet – talked to The Times about the possibilities of the “web of the future”.
He suggests, that soon we shall be able to run and share  virtual offices, bookkeeping departments if not a major part of our daily existence on the web.
 
The name of the game is semantic web  – super communication without boundaries and all of that mega linked and connected so the technical limits of the sky are shrinking as the options rise like Jack’s bean stalk. So the reigning fad of social networking sites MySpace, Facebook etc. will be paled to the T sooner rather than later?
 
Yet who or what is to take part of the semantic web?
Well, apparently very likely not Google.
 
Anyone tell them yet?
 
Because there will be armies of new founded service providers growing like chives after rain.
New forms of web search, fab ways to incorporate the web into our daily lives.
 
Berners-Lee : “Using the semantic web, you can build applications that are much more powerful than anything on the regular web.”
“Imagine if two completely separate things — your bank statements and your calendar — spoke the same language and could share information with one another. You could drag one on top of the other and a whole bunch of dots would appear showing you when you spent your money.”
 
“If you still weren’t sure of where you were when you made a particular transaction, you could then drag your photo album on top of the calendar, and be reminded that you used your credit card at the same time you were taking pictures of your kids at a theme park. So you would know not to claim it as a tax deduction.
“It’s about creating a seamless web of all the data in your life.”

Thanks to the new coming “tagging” technology the work environment may be revolutionized.

But there must be a down side.

The Semantic web could be the new Bonanza for terrorists and fraudsters.

Explosives will be totally out to blow up the enemy as via Semantic Web they could do it surgically clean from inside.

And the great new investment opportunities in companies who will deliver at least an illusion of security.

But there are other risks too as our benevolent governments may do the trick on their beloved electorate.

You may as well give them all your passwords upon filing taxes or registering a car.

And industrial espionage will be so simple and not many need bother to file a patent no more.

At the end of the day it is all about money and information and the authority to extract both in the most effective way to feed either the pot bellies of administrations, the fundamentalist greed of terrorism or simply criminal scum.

A world without secrets is no perfect Utopia but a sad place.

But Heather Mills would be thrilled as she could easily show that Sir Paul McCartney may have triple the money the court cared to see.

There, brave new world.  Enjoy the semantic web!

This article published by MIZPAH Magazine -  ©2010 www.mizpah.tv

© Helena Lind

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