While perusing
Stephan Decker's home page (following the discovery of this
post titled:
Database Community and the Semantic Web ) I came across a nice
and ultimately semantically loaded statement containing a lot of
important connectors:
The Semantic Web is only the beginning and an
enabling technology for realizing the dreams of Vannevar Bush,
Doug
Engelbart and Tim Berners-Lee:
My current and future objective is the creation and wide
dissemination of the next generation collaboration and augmentation
infrastructure - the
Social Semantic Desktop.
To ensure the loop is closed I have deliberately added the
following references to this post: Vannevar Bush wrote the seminal
article; "As
We May Think" in which he describes a theoretical analog
computer called: "The Memex" - a World Wide Web
precursor. This document was also a source of inspiration for
Ted Nelson
(discussed
briefly in an earlier post re. compatibility of his his vision and
those of Tim Berners-Lee).