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 August 10, 2005

 The BCNGroup Beadgames

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Regarding the direction IT has taken us

 

 

A random message to one of the new start up IT companies working with government and venture capital funding. The response is typical. 

 

Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 10:51 AM

To: info

Subject: Roadmap for semantic technology                  

 

RoadMap

 

please forward this to someone and have them call me

 

Dr Paul S Prueitt

Director BCNGroup

Founder OntologyStream

 

 

Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 2:22 AM

 

Paul,

 

Thank you for your email. I will circulate your information internally and I expect that one of the folks from either my team or our engineering team will be interested in the work you have done in the past.

 

Thank you,

-TR

 

TR

 

VP Marketing & Product Management

 

Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 2:21 PM   (two months later)

To: TR

Subject: RE: Roadmap for semantic technology

 

I just noticed a past communication from you.  I am working with some conceptual maps of IP in the semantic technology domain.  We would like to talk about some value that your corporation might derive from these maps.

 

Dr Paul Prueitt

703-981-2676

 

Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 11:39 AM

Subject: RE: Roadmap for semantic technology

 

Paul,

 

I've checked in with a couple of the folks in our research group and the consensus is that we are not currently pushing hard in this area. As you know these things change from month to month as products and markets evolve so I would like to keep in touch.

 

Thank you,

-TR

 

 

Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 8:01 PM

To: TR

Cc: Foundation CEA

Subject: RE: Roadmap for semantic technology

 

I expect that everyone in the Industry is in a similar position, trying to follow and make sense of something that is not designed to ultimately make the advances in functionality that some of us have talked about for some years. 

 

A sample of the 20 – 40 messages per day, messages sent into any of the W3C standards e-forums, gives one a quick impression of hopeful seekers of functionality.  Most are disappointed, and those that are not get involved with pretending to do something useful to the end user. 

 

We are dealing with experts whose advice is never completely clear and almost always over optimistic.

 

The current technology is vague and full of new promises, and we are somehow we all are willing to forget the failures of the past.

 

The core cause of these failures is the market and those who feel that the market should govern the development of semantic technology.  The market focuses on the short term and will not spend the capital required to gain a full understanding of the long term.  Why?  Well the understanding of the long term has to be communicated to many people before a market will be developed that knows what might be better, in terms of utility.  But any communication of the long-term understanding gained from capital investment does not make sense, since the communication itself gives the hard earned understanding away.  

 

 

Dr Paul Prueitt

Taos New Mexico

 

Foundation CEA