The School of Web Semantics Learning Semantic Web Techniques

The Pew Research Center recently published a report on a survey conducted (December, 2009 through January, 2010) among 859 IT/Internet experts on the shape of the Web in 2020.

The participants were asked 10 questions (tension pairs) regarding their opinion on the state and further development of the Web 3.0 as envisioned by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Critics argued that the meaning (semantics) of what we (humans) communicate cannot be easily interpreted (by machines) as we often express our thoughts in "illogical, playfully, misleading, false or nefarious". However, it is not as if we, humans, can always get the point correctly and without an effort, either!

I will try to summarize the report by gathering some of most interesting thoughts about the future of the Semantic Web.