One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.

The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

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