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Well, I found another terrific artist. His name is Jim Bumgardner and he's creating quite a stir on Flickr with good reason. Evocative and mysterious, his work shows, IMHO, how Linked Data might look as envisioned by Neuromancer,

William Gibson's first book dealing with tech, violence and the ubiquitous flow of data in a wired society.

To learn more about information connectivity, check out Paul Miller's Linked Data - The Rise of the Semantic Web? to see how it applies to Open Knowledge and the need to protect it for users and creators of content alike as civilization moves toward a world of infinitely malleable data.

From this perspective, one soon realizes that RSS (Really Simple Syndication) may presage the move toward the semantic web as it is the ultimate viral data linker, a construct that will become far more powerful when OPML (Open Processor Markup Language) the powerful yet limited hierarchical language of RSS is replaced by OWL (Web Ontology Language) the language that is not only "intended to be used when the information contained in documents needs to be processed by applications, as opposed to situations where the content only needs to be presented to humans." but also is becoming the primary language of the Semantic Web as it can link easily to bots, the digital entities that will replace us as surfers on the net mining for meaning 24/7 on an as needs basis.

The question to ask now is "When do they search on their own."
"No one knows, do one." Fats Waller