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<br><div><div>On Mar 17, 2008, at 7:49 AM, <a href="mailto:subbies@redheadedstepchild.org">subbies@redheadedstepchild.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Semantic standards are not designed<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">to aid humans in understanding the data that passes across the web - they<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">are designed to assist machines in parsing the data and delivering it to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">humans.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> </blockquote></div><br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Oh my. So in the near future we will be the receivers of massive amounts of data, that the system pushes on us; but which is not organized to be meaningful to us. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Hummm.. sounds like we already have that, it is called TV. The Internet could be and is more. The potential is for true social networking driven by a demand economy. The demand side is what we do not now have fully operational. Balance balance balance. Supply side by itself is ruining American, and the world. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>There is an organization to the ads and the TV programming, and there is value sometimes; but mostly this just feeds the addiction that is wasting the Earth, its resources and its people in the pursuit of consumption.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The point is that interpretation by a human in context is where meaning is defined; unless you are one of the disciples of the Current Church of IT (CCIT) Incorporated.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>