TBL has been touting the coming of a Semantic Web for quite some time now. I love hearing about example applications but frankly I don't know how much of it I c

TBL has been touting the coming of a Semantic Web for quite some time now. I love hearing about example applications but frankly I don't know how much of it I can buy into. Think back 10 years to the examples we were being given about "Surfing the Net" -- while we have some really cool apps and technology today, things didn't turn out quite as people imagined. Technology always has this habit of building alot of hype around potential, but always failing to truly deliver. Additionally the whole concept of the Semantic Web requires that everyone freely exchange their data -- a lovely idea but a bit too romantic if you ask me. My first startup began by squatting in W3C's office space, two doors down from TBL. Really, I'd love nothing more than for it to work but the guys developing the specs for the SW are so out of touch that I wonder if they really have the ability to gain mass adoption.