Managing the Semantic Web, Sandro Zic

How to ensure usability of distributed content & knowledge management?

Intelligent systems, peer-to-peer, remote programming rather than RPC.

Software agents. I’ve never quite understood the need for these. Why do we need to send code around? What couldn’t be accomplished ahead of time by Googlebot or having a direct interface exposed? Some use for disconnected operation, maybe, but increasingly we’re always connected and want immediate results anyway. Due to lack of time, we never got to this question.