>It is not hard to imagine your Web-enabled microwave oven consulting the frozen-food manufacturer's Web site for optimal cooking parameters. >This is Berners-L

>It is not hard to imagine your Web-enabled microwave oven consulting the frozen-food manufacturer's Web site for optimal cooking parameters. >This is Berners-Lee being visionary about the potential of a world-wide network of computers. That sounds very much like the sort of stuff that gets spouted by the IoT crowd too though isn't it? >The problem is not just the terrible technical implementation, it's also that the vision behind all this semantic web stuff was one of soulless dorks who saw the world's population spend their days semantically marking up All The Things to get the most of their web-enabled microwaves. Well, aren't there a huge mass of developers spending their lives writing custom code for every damn API, and then integrating with more custom code. And each time eventing new poor ways of describing the things and relationships?