Monday 14 April 2008

Semantic web

This stands for the meaning of something. It describes something that makes a computer understand certain things. It has been argued that how can a computer understand things as well as humans? A computer has the task of finding things out for people and a semantic web allows it to do just that.

It is from W3C director Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the web.

Is this a good thing in society? How will we benefit?

2 comments:

Melz88 said...

By the end of our time the world will be like I-Robot dont you think or is that just me.... the world run by machines. We have machines to do day to day activites and will it ever stop your car is a machine, the tv, laptop, mobile all communications devices its mental.

Having another thing to add surely cant be that bad .. or can it? A computer could possibly understand some things like humans however they are never going to have human emotion are they now! Its a trick one this isnt it hmmm im not so sure i think more research needs to be done into this area dont you think?

Erica Hazel said...

RINCY