You don't need to be an expert to understand the article, and you might find it interesting, even if you know next to nothing about the semantic web.

A fundamental component of the semantic web is the URI. A different way of saying this is that a central requirement of being able to manage human knowledge is having the ability to uniquely identify things. We could use any scheme to identify the things that humans want to store information about, but it just so happens that through an interesting sequence of events relating to the internet, the most popular and enduring has been the URI.

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