A useful link is to this transcript of an interview with Tim Berners-Lee: http://talis-podcasts.s3.amazonaws.com/twt20080207_TimBL.html http://talis-podcasts.s

A useful link is to this transcript of an interview with Tim Berners-Lee: http://talis-podcasts.s3.amazonaws.com/twt20080207_TimBL.html http://talis-podcasts.s3.amazonaws.com/twt20080207_TimBL.htm... And particularly this passage: Paul [the interviewer]: 06:05 OK, sounds good. Going a little bit broader than those questions then, back in 2001 in that Scientific American article, you and the other authors painted a very broad grand vision of where the Semantic Web could take us. Did you think we'd be closer to that seven years on? Tim: Well, for one thing that article was, I think, too sci-fi. I think, that really what we have... the message has been... it was looking too far into the future. It imagined the Semantic Web was deployed, and then people had made all kinds of fairly AI-like systems which run on top of that.