The vital need for an ANONYMOUS Semantic Web (transcending trendy elites of networked… idiots)
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“…Furthermore, we also need to avoid the imminent (possible) deterioration of (planetary) Social Ethos into a cliquey horde of interconnected IDIOTS; as it’s been well known and widely demonstrated historically, that IDIOTS have a naturally ENHANCED tendency to form Groups and Networks (e.g. by the Greek satirical writer Lebessis, in his ground-breaking early twentieth century best-seller in Greece, titled “The Enormous Importance of idiots in Public Life”)…”
(update: “Ministry of Silly Walks” by Monty Python)
In the Semantic Web, I can’t hide the fact I am only a novice, to some extent. Although I’ve been experimenting with Triples (in Logic) ever since I got involved with computers, about 25 years ago; although I can write efficient PROLOG (and Assembly Language) code, to achieve almost anything FOR today’s Semantic Web, this is a fact.
In fact, my entire involvement with computers, of more than 2 decades (professionally) was triggered-off by something else, as an unexpected side-effect. Previously, I was almost a luddite, a young man trying to become an Artist (painter and sculptor) while doing occasionally other kinds of work for self-support.
- My eventual trendy nerdyness was an initially insignificant side-effect, arising out of curiosity about Theorem proving, Mechanical deduction, Logic and Artificial Intelligence, in the early eighties. It was also due to the fatal benediction of buying a toy-sized home PC (a “ZX-81“), followed by other pieces of junk (such as the ZX Spectrum, the Amstrad CPC464 and -eventually- the IBM PC!
