links for 2007-11-06

Is a society possible where scarcity is no longer a precondition of economic success, but a problem to be worked around?

“Our main arguments against the Semantic Web were that 1) it relies, at best, on an incomplete theory of meaning 2) unlike what is suggested by the Semantic Web, meanings are not fixed and are tied to contexts.”

If you ignore the social aspects of the Web, then software can take you only so far ..

Microsoft’s superset of mapreduce