As a computer science doctoral student working in the field of electronic publishing, this article was right up my alley (although it may not be particularly interesting for the non-geeks in the audience). August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web is a piece of speculative fiction about the internet experience of the near future, and it's firmly rooted in some of today's cutting-edge research.
The article is very well written and, aside from one or two throwaway gags, it's pretty believable. I've read articles on the principles of the Semantic Web before, but this is probably the most pragmatic view of it so far. In fact, until reading this, I was unconvinced that the Semantic Web was a realistic goal. Now, I'm no longer sure that it's so impractical.
Spot the dangling modifier.
It's late so I can't be bothered to go and fix it. Although it's nagging the hell out of me now.
Just as long as everyone knows that I noticed it. Which I did, a mere 8 hours after writing it.
It's really, really bugging me. I think I'm a grammar obsessive-compulsive.
I'm going to leave it there, as a reminder to generations future of how much psychological harm it can do when you dangle your modifier.