Tom Morris



2007.10.05

Andrew Bate has a great blog post from FOWA. From what I've heard the attitude to the Semantic Web which seems to consist of people sticking their fingers in their ears and shouting "La! La! La! We've got microwaves now, we have no need for ovens! La! La! La!". Marketing types do this a lot. New automatically beats old, regardless of the merits of old or new. Hence the Web's utterly pointless version numbers ("I'm building a Web 4.0 application! I win!"). It's really getting utterly boring to deal with this unthinking dismissal of anything that's not cool and zany just based on marketing speak, rather than rational comprehension of the technology. 2007-10-05T12:00:00ZUntitled entry permalink

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Tom Morris
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I am a , an , like to code in and noodle about with and the . I also have a BA in philosophy from London, and am studying for an MA. My philosophical interests are in Victorian-era German philosophy, Kierkegaard, Robert Nozick, hermeneutics and current approaches to the demarcation problem in the philosophy of science. Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

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