Why the Semantic Web will make a very significant difference to our ability to ask questions

The Semantic Web will make a big difference to our lives because we will be able to ask sensible questions of the Web for the first time. Unlike today's Google  - "Find me the restaurants within walking distance of Big Ben that have a good wine list and are not French" - tomorrow's Google will answer with an accurate and short list. The essence of the Semantic Web is that a model is created that understands the "how" data is linked together - "Everything is Connected".   Because this knowledge of connectivity is embedded in the model, the Semantic user merely specifies the pathway of interest - there is no longer any need to painstakingly write SQL code to join fragments of data together. We have built this Semantic Web technology completely into our product - SDS - to give this benefit today for the data distributed throughout your organisation. We have been able to use this - literally millions of hours of engineering work - technology to transform the ease with which non-programmers can ask questions of data that is dispersed in databases, spreadsheets and the web.