[ Remember, you heard it here first (or tell me where you heard it before :) ] Without having read the article (yet), my theory is that the web will become "se

[ Remember, you heard it here first (or tell me where you heard it before :) ] Without having read the article (yet), my theory is that the web will become "semantic" in the sense "semaniacs" hope for ONLY when users can generate structured content (other than just photos, articles, comments, forum posts etc) EASILY ... that is: differently from when HTML started out, site owners cannot get such a ball rolling by painstakingly fleshing out RDF mark-up manually. Rather, those web sites will be "semantic" that provide wiki-like editing for data sets. As an example, imagine a web-based database of restaurants: - Let everyone provide tags for different categories (taste ie Indian/Italian/Regional, style ie luxury/fast food joint/middle-of-the-road, features ie garden/bar/smoking area) - Let everyone update base facts such as address or name changes - Let everyone add photos, media, reviews, comments - Most importantly: let everyone rate/confirm/deny everyone elses contributions - Reward by credits/trust/rankings but where commerce is involved, also by discounts/"miles"/whatever. Make it easy for websites to do that, or create successful websites that do that so others follow suit should this be what people really want, and you have a semantic web in no time. If the semantic web is what people want, this will be the only feasible way to create one. If it's not what they want, we will find out soon enough.