In today's wall street journal, L. Gordon Crovitz argues that the country (and especially the financial sector) would benefit from a complete redesign of the web.
In the article, futurist (side note - coolest job ever...the dude just lays around thinking about the future) Ray Kurzweil explains that the web currently doesn't have a relationship database structure that can be easily queried. So instead of having information freely available to all, and being accessed and used in ways well beyond its original intentions, we have a bunch of fractured databases in propreitary formats.
As a wanna-be data junkie (you hear that Chicago Booth!!!), I like the idea of having tons of raw data available to people that want to use it. But this article was way too simplistic, and I'd want some more details about this new web and how we can use it to spurn innovation...
either way, its an interesting and quick read..check it out here
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