I had the same feeling back then, although I was in high school. By the time I'd graduated high school it was clear that it was indeed mostly a pipe dream and h

I had the same feeling back then, although I was in high school. By the time I'd graduated high school it was clear that it was indeed mostly a pipe dream and how, as another comment says, the incentives are all misaligned. I grew fairly sceptical of the semantic web. And what do you know... 15 years later and I'm working for TimBL himself, figuring out if we can make it work this time with personal data and changed (legislative) incentives. Who knows :)