Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flx.masto.host/@bosak" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bosak</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://carhenge.club/@skiles" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>skiles</span></a></span></p><p>>> Twenty-five years ago I was part of an effort… to develop a standard environment for the exchange of business documents called <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ebXML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ebXML</span></a>. It was an open-standards internet follow-on to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EDI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EDI</span></a>. … an environment in which all the actual business transactions were between machines, without the need for human…</p><p>Then, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://w3c.social/@timbl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>timbl</span></a></span> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/W3C" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>W3C</span></a> invented the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SemanticWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SemanticWeb</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OWL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OWL</span></a> reasoners, which I can't help but see as a precursor to the current AI push, and a continuation of that way of thinking</p>