Every layer of abstraction costs you 50% of your audience

The cost of pushing abstraction [Seb's Open Research]

Sean McGrath: “It’s time for the Semantic Web proponents to stop trying to teach us to think at their level of abstraction.”

A thought-provoking piece that deals with a very real problem (“every layer of abstraction costs you 50% of your audience“), though I wish the author had spent more space developing his alternative vision of “semantic shadows”.”citc”

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2003/03/28.html#a506; comments are here.

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