Another article on Technology Review (like Scott’s below) is Tim Berners-Lee (the “inventor of the World Wide Web”) ranting about how you can’t today just say “I want to go to this event” and have the computer do the rest:

“There’s no way you can just say, ‘I want to go to that event,’” explains Berners-Lee, “because the semantics of which bit is the date and which bit is the time has been lost.” But on the Semantic Web, he asserts, those bits will be labeled; the software on your computer will recognize those labels and automatically book your flight to the conference and reserve a hotel room with the click of a button.

This is certainly a good goal for us–after all, the future of the economy is in experiences, not services … and certainly not in plain old information!

Here’s the entire article in pdf format for those who aren’t “subscribers only”:semantic.pdf