The Semantic Web: Iterating Through 2020?

The latest Pew Internet and American Life report entitled “The Future of the Internet III” asked “Internet leaders, activists and analysts” a variety of questions.  One finding that we in the Semantic technology world should pay attention to was “Network engineering research will build on the status quo—there isn’t likely to be a ‘next-gen’ Internet”. 

The report notes:

Nearly four out of five respondents (78%) said they think the original Internet

architecture will still be in place in 2020 even as it is continually

being refined. They did not believe the current Internet will be

replaced by a completely new “next-generation” system between

now and 2020. Those who wrote extended elaborations to their

answers projected the expectation that IPv6 and the Semantic Web

will be vital elements in the continuing development of the Internet

over the next decade.

 See the full Pew report here.

 

 

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