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I wonder, Edd, what the viewpoint of history will be twenty years from now as to who were the heros and who were the villains in the emergence of the very large scale distributed hypermedia?
It is easy to say today that TimBL is a genius because the system is working, yet this system is in its infancy. His history has been as if Robert Goddard, instead of working in isolation, went on to head a version of NASA in 1935, thus enabling both space travel and the delivery of nuclear devices by 1944. There is a painful naivete about the ways humans use technology in some great inventors. Berners-Lee's genie will not go back into it's bottle. XML is just a bottle.
Consider the implications of
http://www.intel-iris.net/papers/pervasive-03.pdf
combined with autonomic correlation engines based on semantic web technology and automated dispatch.
It is never a single device but their operation in combination that creates the brave new world.
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