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EU Strategy to lead on Web4.0 and virtual worlds - I want government institutions to be genuinely interested in our technological future, but when I read these types of documents I just start loosing interest after 3 or 4 paragraphs. I don't know exactly what it is with them. Maybe they are too full of ridiculously abstract ideas. Maybe it's because they seem to aim to rule the entire universe. Maybe it's something else. I find it difficult to be in the same frame of mind as the authors. I'm thinking in terms of APIs, tech specs, http requests, web services and what not. They are thinking in abstract soup-ese. I don't see how these views intersect in a meaningful way. How should I be evaluating them? They aren't a service provider company, or a media company, but they also aren't a religion. They are somewhere in between. I find them confusing. ec.europa.eu #

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