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By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:55:54 +0000

Fair enough. For that matter, I probably will be right there with you! Lots of other folks will consider us quite irrelevant though.

By: Joel Dietz

Joel Dietz — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:35:55 +0000

I agree with everything except the statement ‘we will not be thinking.’ I at least will be thinking in such a way.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:09:27 +0000

Well, yes and no. I’m not sure how far it carries us to label these technologies with philosophical resemblances. You can say the idea of the atom bomb was just rehashed apocalyptic alchemy, but that doesn’t change the fact that its actual invention, its actual existence has a dramatic and dramatically new impact on our being in the world.

Every invention comes with unanticipated, unanticipatable consequences. The engineers can never quite predict what the mass of people will do with a thing.

If semantic web happens, we will not be thinking, “Oh, this is such a rehash of Kant. Bor-ing!” We’ll be worrying about what the consequences of machine-readable information will be, and how it will affect how we operate. It could get really weird, in ways we don’t even have names for. Then, I think, we’ll be in a position to begin labeling.

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:10:36 +0000

Semantic web is neo-Kantian. Annotated post-modern. No new ideas.