The Next WEB

摘要

Urst Bubble And A Few Thousand Failed Business Plans Aside, It's clear that the World Wide web really has changed the way we do business. But there's something missing from the equation, we've got more data than ever, with everything from sales records to engineering specs available online, but finding the needle we need in the haystack of the Web isn't getting easier. The trick may be to build a new Web, one based on the meanings and syntax of our language but invisible to the humans who speak it. This world, dubbed the Semantic Web by the researchers and academics who are planning it, is one meant for machines, not people. The goal is to allow computers not just to process and move our words and data but to understand them. "The last seven years, the Web has been very focused on giving value to human eyeballs," says Prabhakar Raghavan, chief technology officer at knowledge-management software company Verity Inc. "Over the next seven years, the interesting eyeballs will belong to computers."