I have been thinking about this topic for quite some time. I never found time to sit and put together my thoughts in a coherent fashion. It is about Semantic Web and how it will blend into the current cloud computing paradigm. In fact, I even have a provocative title for my future post. I have planned to call it “Intelligence as a Service (InaaS)”. I can assure you that the post will be published in this space in the early weeks of the new year.
Well, it would have stayed within my minds if not for the very well written post by Paul Miller on the topic at ReadWriteWeb. In the post he eloquently points out to the evolution of Cloud Computing beyond the hype surrounding the likes of Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, etc. He clearly highlights the role of data and poses the following question
For now, then, we should conclude by asking what role the semantic web has to play in any of this. The semantic web, with its unadulterated recognition of the primacy of the web's hyperlink? The semantic web, designed from the outset to convey context and relationships derived from data spread across the web? The semantic web, supported by technologies that operate openly and on the scale of the web?
He also identifies where everything is going by talking about the world wide database.
Yep, here we go, on a journey toward Kevin Kelly's "World Wide Database," which will take in a lot of the shifts facing enterprise computing along the way.
Bingo. He is right on target. I also think that we will be seeing what I call as “Intelligence as a Service” with the help of the Semantic Web, the scalability of Cloud Computing and Openness of the people’s mindset (yes, as we evolved from the early days of desktop to the current data and apps on the cloud era, our mind has been “opened up”. Thanks to the relentless efforts by open source and open web advocates who worked hard to raise the consciousness of the users on the importance of being open). Soon, we will be able to tap into the clouds for intelligence just as we tapped into the power grid for power and how, today, we tap into the clouds for computing resources.
I strongly urge everyone to read Paul’s post and it offers invaluable insights into where the technology is headed. Maybe, we could tap into the clouds for intelligence one day and use the free time we get because of it for having fun like French instead of slogging it out like Americans or Japanese.
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