Re: [ontolog-forum] Study says Uncle Sam should get out of Web publishin

["Deborah MacPherson" <debmacp@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think there is also a problem with people not being able to make stuff. I liked that article because it seems like maybe people could make things if the stated goals could be realized. Some goals might be Mark Musen style refrigerators, some Barry Smith style perfected writing, but making stuff requires lots of things to work with, sort through, pick out what you like and get rid of 90 percent of what doesn't matter.  Without those features, all the open data we are left with is..........a bunch of flat, boring, non-human, non-inventive, paranoid non-stuff. 

Deborah MacPherson

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:17 PM, John F. Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ron,

Thanks for forwarding those notes.   But the slowness and chaos
of the federal gov't in responding to the new opportunities can
be traced to one disastrous mistake:  putting a moron into the
oval office instead of the man who sponsored the Internet.

People made a lot of jokes about Al Gore "inventing" the
Internet, but that wasn't the verb that Gore mentioned.
What Gore did was to take the initiative in sponsoring the
legislation that put together the many, many diverse
protocols of the 1980s under the same umbrella.

Without that initiative in the 1980s, the WWW would not have
been possible in the 1990s.

John Sowa

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