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On Apr 30, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Jack Park wrote: (02)
> This article
>
>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/why-steve-jobs-hates-flash.html
>
> whether credible or not, offers one person's interpretation of a
> larger picture that seems worth reading.
>
> Jack
>
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:16 AM, John F. Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Mills and Peter,
>>
>> I agree with Mills' response to Peter.
>>
>> PFB> The only downside is that Siri will never see the light of day
>> > now on any other platform than the most proprietary ... Apple.
>>
>> MD> Not at all. There is no downside. Apple's acquisition of Siri is
>> > a bellwether event signaling major market opportunities to come.
>>
>> Yes. Siri is an important app. But semantic technology is much
>> bigger, and it's still in its infancy.
>>
>> MD> This [Morgan Stanley] report includes my favorite quote of the
>> > year (so far):
>> >
>> > "Mobile Internet is largest market opportunity we've seen in the
>> > history of the Technology sector."
>>
>> I agree that it's the largest they've seen, but history has had
>> bigger opportunities, which weren't obvious when they arrived.
>>
>> The most famous is Faraday's reply to Chancellor of the Exchequer
>> Gladstone, who asked what was the practical use of electricity:
>>
>> "One day, sir, you may tax it."
>>
>> I would say that semantic technology is bigger. But like the
>> tools for electricity in Faraday's time, the current semantic
>> tools are still very crude. I think that Tom Gruber and friends
>> deserve a great deal of credit for developing a successful
>> application with what is currently available.
>>
>> The real successes will come when the technology is not visible
>> as an "app", and it is not called "mobile" or "Internet" or even
>> "Mobile Internet" technology.
>>
>> Remember, a few years ago, that people marveled at how many electric
>> motors they have in their homes. Motors are ubiquitous, and nobody
>> notices them anymore. Today, computers are ubiquitous, and there
>> are probably more computers in a typical home than electric motors.
>>
>> I believe that's the real market for semantic technology: it will
>> grow to the level where nobody notices it. That's the target we
>> should aim at -- not mobile, not Internet, but ubiquitous.
>>
>> John
>>
>> PS: If you "read between the lines", this note is a criticism of
>> the Semantic Web: the word 'web' is not sufficiently ambitious.
>>
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