In the final installment of this two-part series, Dean Allemang and Scott Henninger look into how the insights about semantic web education have an impact on the adoption of semantic web technologies.
When we speak of 'technology adoption', we are referring to the uptake of a new technology by a large group of people. For technologies like cell phones and DVD players, we are speaking pretty much of the general population, cutting across age groups, gender lines, and professions. For other technologies, like blood pressure monitors or language compilers, we have a very specialized target group in mind. But regardless of the technology audience, technology adoption is capricious, relying not only on technical superiority but on a number of issues like marketing, timing and image.
