QEI 203: The Ontology Infrastructure (Course)

THINGS     Ontology Component      If you don’t manage IT, it will manage you.     -- Peter MacMillan, Alliance e-Finance, in CMP’s agora.com  As you can see, the real estate theme is not just an illustrative metaphor. QEI is indeed about indoor spaces. Think about it: where do you go to get things done, to pursue your life’s various agendas? While we enjoy the outdoors, we get things done in buildings.  Some people a long time ago told us that the Internet was a highway and that our use of it resembled the use of a highway. Fine. A principal use of highways is to bring us to buildings. Learning, shopping, and doing business by the side of a busy highway is just a nutty idea. It is the source of our problems.