I think there is a lot of fussing about technical solutions to what is ultimately a cultural problem. Suppose we had the perfect technology to define ontologie

I think there is a lot of fussing about technical solutions to what is ultimately a cultural problem. Suppose we had the perfect technology to define ontologies over real data. This doesn't address the fact that Anglo-American culture is hostile to alternative ontologies. The idea of "one Truth" is baked into the national consciousness, from classical Western religion+philosophy to the liberal-democratic Constitution to Wikipedia and the current Fact-Checking™ Brought To You By Lockheed-Martin™ news-media regime. With this worldview, there is no reason to invest in designing or implementing Semantic Web technologies. It's like building a a monument to a god that you don't believe exists. Waste of time. To be clear, I spend a lot of time thinking about the technical side too and implementing enterprise solutions. I just think it's naive to frame it as primarily a technical problem when it comes to wider public deployment.