After being knighted and receiving the coveted First Millenium Technology Prize, Scientific American reports that Tim Berners-Lee is working on a new form of WWW content.

The Semantic Web  will enable computers to perform more sophisticated searches and tasks for users.  The idea is to create an environment where software agents can actually go above and beyond simple web page parsing and be able to process the actual semantics of a web page.  For instance, Yahoo! Finance lists all the stock market information and the very first figure actually is a dynamically created GIF of the NYSE composite index.  The Semantic Web is going to be a powerful extension of the existing World Wide Web (WWW).  The above article offers great insights into the how this concept will be really disruptive, being able to even assist the evolution of human knowledge as a whole.