Green's Law: A text format of sufficient complexity might as well be binary.
Posted on Saturday, January 14, 2006
at 3:05 PM (permalink)
I've been trying to work my way through this book, but I keep falling asleep. I finally started reading it in bed so I could slip into unconsciousness more comfortably. I don't blame the author. Well, not completely. How could anyone make the following material interesting:
To make a statement about another statement, for instance, you have to create a statement-type resource that collects three other statements: one saying that the target statement has a certain resource as its subject, one that the target statement has a certain other resource as its predicate, and so on. Only then can you make assertions about this new statement-type resource.
The funny (or sad) thing is that the Amazon reviews describe this book as "a breath of fresh air." The complexity of the Semantic Web's conception of the future can be seen from this standard illustration by Tim Berners-Lee. 
