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title: "Comment of the Day: First Base With Semantic Web"
date: 2008-02-27
author: "Richard MacManus"
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  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
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  - name: "2008"
    url: "/tag/2008.md"
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# Comment of the Day: First Base With Semantic Web

![](https://web.archive.org/web/20090104152852im_/http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/comments_comp_gold_star.jpg)In our post [Tim Berners-Lee Says the Time for the Semantic Web is Now](https://web.archive.org/web/20090104152852/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tbl_calls_for_semweb.php), the Web’s inventor is quoted as saying that “people are realizing it’s time to just go do it.” But commenter Gregory [isn’t getting as excited](https://web.archive.org/web/20090104152852/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tbl_calls_for_semweb.php#comment-47950) – he thinks that “we haven’t even gotten to first base”. And no we’re not talking about something [Valleywag](https://web.archive.org/web/20090104152852/http://www.valleywag.com/) would cover. It’s the Semantic Web, kids. Congratulations Gregory, you’ve won a $30 Amazon voucher – courtesy of our competition sponsors AdaptiveBlue and their [Amazon WishList Widget](https://web.archive.org/web/20090104152852/http://www.adaptiveblue.com/widgets_auto.html?section=amz&name=Your%20Wish%20List). Here’s his full comment:

> ![](https://web.archive.org/web/20090104152852im_/http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/tbl.jpg)“i strongly agree with your “reach new heights” thinking…
> 
> no matter how fine the mesh, human consciousness will be more subtle, and having a lot of the grunt work conceptualization taken care of machine-wise will reallyt allow this to become obvious…
> 
> the genome guys thought for a few minutes they got to the fundamental building blocks, and found that, no way, there was so much more at subtler levels that it only increased the questions…
> 
> same with the semantic web thing…
> 
> the danger? algorithms taken as reality, in the same way your insurance sx canceled by a computer because of some obscure programmer’s decision
> 
> anyway, it is going to arrive sooner rather than later, after all, technology is just the out-picturing on the material plane of the natural and inherent abilities of consciousness, and we haven’t even gotten to first base”

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semantic_web_first_base.php))*