The fate of the semantic web

Technology experts and stakeholders who participated in a recent US survey believe online information will continue to be organized and made accessible in smarter and more useful ways in coming years, but there is stark dispute about whether the improvements will match the visionary ideals of those who are working to build the semantic web. Below are links to video and summaries of several sessions at FutureWeb 2010, in which experts from this survey discuss the future of the internet: Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, delivered a keynote on the Future of the Web and answered audience questions: http://www.elon.edu/e-web/predictions/futureweb2010/lee_rainie_keynote.xhtml Lee's interviews with: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and Danny Weitzner, formerly W3C Technology & Society Policy director, now the associate administrator for policy at the United States National Telecommunications and Information Administration Vint Cerf , Internet Protocol co-innovator and Google vice president danah boyd of Microsoft and Harvard University's Berkman Center, addressing the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead Doc Searls , a co-author of “The Cluetrain Manifesto,” senior editor for Linux Journal, and fellow at the Berkman Center at Harvard and at the Center for Information Technology & Society at the University of California at Santa Barbara, on the influence of the Web (includes a public question-and-answer session) Bob Young , CEO of Lulu.com, on the future of publishing Marc Rotenberg , executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, on the future of the Web About the Survey The survey results are based on a non-random online sample of 895 internet experts and other internet users, recruited via email invitation, Twitter or Facebook from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University. Since the data are based on a non-random sample, a margin of error cannot be computed, and the results are not projectable to any population other than the experts in this sample.