Incentivised truth — the next round for the semantic web

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Sep 6, 2018 · 2 min read

The Semantic Web is an ideal in which every piece of content comes with a meta description about what it is. But even 25 years after the invention of the WWW, the Semantic Web is still far away. The blockchain opens a new chance to implement the dream of Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web.

Do you remember how hard it was to get meaningful information in the time before the Internet? You had to order a book, usually not knowing if what arrived days later had the answer to your question. Or you visited a library — for millennials: that’s a public building with many books that you can borrow. The books you wanted usually weren’t available.

What a relief the invention of the Internet was. Or was it? Let’s say you want to find out how to launch a successful crowdfunding (an ICO) for a new cryptocurrency. You ask the almighty oracle Google: “How to make an ICO”.

A lot of what you get is:

· Opinion

· Multiple slightly different worded copies of the initial opinion

· Advertising disguised as an opinion disguised as information

· Misleading opinions

· Answers to questions you didn’t ask

· Aged or ageless information in an ever-changing environment

· Disinformation

What you don’t learn is how to make an ICO. You might find all the raw data but you are starting with a huge handicap:

You don’t know the right questions. So you won’t find the right answers.

It’s a long and steep learning curve to identify which questions to ask. You will also have a hard time qualifying the findings.

We still have the half-knowledge we had until the 1990s, but this time we have the illusion of knowledge.

To be continued. And now you can learn more on the site:pacio.io

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