Kingsley, (01)
I forgot to reply to the following point: (02)
> The work by Facebook and Google doesn't align directly with the Web
> as a distributed DBMS as per your comparison above. (03)
Like nearly all major companies that use the WWW to make a profit,
Facebook, Google, and Microsoft (Bing) have ignored the Semantic Web.
If there is a useful resource, such as DBpedia, they'll use it as
input. But they translate it to more efficient representations. (04)
As I said before, I was working at IBM in R & D areas for 30 years,
and I had a strong interest in AI areas for even longer. But I was
repeatedly frustrated by the way some very intelligent, but totally
clueless academics managed to convert promising opportunities into
bubbles that burst in disasters. (05)
I have a lot of respect for Tim B-L, who had some promising ideas
in the 1990s and early 2000s. But once again, clueless academics
got hold of the SW, pasted their PhD dissertations on top, and
converted a promising beginning into one more bubble that
mainstream IT ignored. (06)
John (07)
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