Dude, you're not old enough to remember when big libraries used to have to clear out shelving to make room for their card catalogs. Same problem.
I can't remember if it was Tim Berners-Lee or Eric Schmidt who predicted that in the very near future the amount of metadata on the Web would outsize the amount of actual data.
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Date: 2008-10-28 03:21 pm (UTC)I can't remember if it was Tim Berners-Lee or Eric Schmidt who predicted that in the very near future the amount of metadata on the Web would outsize the amount of actual data.
Feeling old fogey now...