This month, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project released a study on the semantic web. The web will get smarter. It will become more useful. But whether there's significant disagreement on whether the "semantic web" will become the reality many wish. Lee Rainie of Pew and Janna Quitney Anderson of Elon University's Imagining the Internet project asked 895 experts to "predict the likely progress toward achieving the goals of the semantic web by the year 2020." Sponsor Some 47% agreed with the statement: "By 2020, the semantic web envisioned by Tim Berners‐Lee will not be as fully effective as its creators hoped and average users will not have noticed much of a difference." Some 41% agreed with the opposite statement, which posited: "By 2020, the semantic web envisioned by Tim Berners‐Lee and his allies will have been achieved to a significant degree and have clearly made a difference to average internet users." Among the more interesting results to me is how "critics noted that human uses of language are often illogical, playfully misleading, false or nefarious, thus human semantics can never be made comprehensible to machines." How much of the "tedium" of, well, human understanding, can machines take away?