[iDC] please make comments regarding semantic overlay term

[Paul Prueitt]

On Mar 17, 2008, at 7:49 AM, subbies at redheadedstepchild.org wrote:

>  Semantic standards are not designed
> to aid humans in understanding the data that passes across the web  
> - they
> are designed to assist machines in parsing the data and delivering  
> it to
> humans.


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.

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.

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.

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.








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