“Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.”
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The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.
