Many say that Knowledge is the oil of the Third Millennium. The European Council, in the Year 2000, launched the Lisbon Strategy1, aiming at building in Europe the major Knowledge Economy in the world. Then we had the 9/11 and the "subprimes" (the future is rarely as we expect) and an epochal economic slowdown, without an equivalent since 80 years. Nevertheless, the knowledge economy, pushed by the consistent evolution of the information technologies, is steadily progressing and further expansion is foreseeable in the near future. We believe that for a renewed sustainable growth, semantic technologies will play an important role. In this paper we briefly draw the main lines of a possible future evolution of the application of semantic technologies to the business world.
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