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Article: The lazy person's guide to the Semantic Web.
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- April 1, 2008
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Communication, as we may remember, consists of four parts: sender, receiver, message and medium. The sender constructs a message that consists of specific content and transmits that content through a particular medium: voice, symbols, letters, waving flags, Morse code, whatever it takes to deliver the message. For communication to be considered effective, the receiver must both receive and understand the message.
With that in mind, I would submit that humans communicate with computers, albeit in a very limited way. Yes, we send them lots of messages: "Remember this text I'm typing," "Save this file," "Open that file," "Print this ...