Thirty years after [Swanson] published his essay, we no longer have to rely
on human contrivances alone. Now, with the ubiquity of the internet
and the rise of machine learning, a new kind of solution is beginning
to take shape. The infrastructure of the web, built to link one
resource to the next, was the beginning. The next wave of information
systems promises to more deeply establish links between people, ideas,
and artifacts that have, so far, remained out of reach--by drawing
connections between information and objects that have come unmoored
from context and history.