Funnily enough, the why semantic web is good section is the section that actually identifies why it failed.
We are going to have an ultra flexible data model that everyone can just participate in?
That never works. Protocols work by restricting possibilities not allowing everything. The more possibilities you allow, the more room for subtle incompatibilities and the more effort you have to spend massaging everything into compatibility.
We are going to have an ultra flexible data model that everyone can just participate in?
That never works. Protocols work by restricting possibilities not allowing everything. The more possibilities you allow, the more room for subtle incompatibilities and the more effort you have to spend massaging everything into compatibility.