Is Semantics search the end of 'information organization'?

Posted by Dellu
Apr 19, 2018 at 07:26 PM

I put “Norway prosper” into the search engine, some of the results I get are very fascinating.

>In Norway, after the discovery of oil in the North Sea in 1969, economic growth accelerated for the following 25 years, allowing the country to catch-up and then exceed its otherwise highly similar Scandinavian neighbours, Denmark and Sweden, in terms of GDP per capita (Larsen, 2005)

>After Norway became an oil-producing nation and the national income per capita rose above that of Sweden, the self-image of the Norwegians seems to have been strengthened

None of these outputs actually contain the term “prosper” nor any of its close Synonymous.

If I can magically fetch the exact concepts I am looking for like this, why do I need to keep a list of quotations or summaries or the notes from the books in my note writing software?

In this kind of powerful semantic search is in our hands, the organization of knowledge by manually setting maps/tags or hyperlinking concepts is successfully outdated.