That's a reason why the Semantic Web won't wake up and become conscious, like many bad sci-fi stories. However, if you think of it "vocabularies for people to

That's a reason why the Semantic Web won't wake up and become conscious, like many bad sci-fi stories. However, if you think of it "vocabularies for people to tag their own stuff in a structured way", which Google can then index and traverse, then it's more realistic. That said, the Semantic Web people are indeed guilty of hyping this technology as being able to "reason" on its own.