Web 2.0 vs. the Semantic Web: A Philosophical Assessment.
The paper develops some of the conclusions, reached in Floridi (2007), concerning the future developments of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and their impact on our lives. The two main theses supported in that article were that, as the information society develops, the threshold be...
| Publicado en: | Episteme (Edinburgh University Press) Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 25 - 38 |
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2009
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