Thus /refind.xml was engineered to solve three fundamental visibility problems:

• dependence on implied physical ability to process information.
• minimizing how language impairs visibility on the global path of communication.
• ensuring that all our yesterdays are visible for researchers.

At first, people thought /refind.xml was the epitome of frivolous technogeek. Sure, maybe it's nice when overwhelmed with endless choices to get pinpoint responses with simple questions like "where is the nearest open store with shoes that takes my credit card"? C'mon, is letting your fingers do the walking that much trouble. What is so wrong with placing a phone call or two or even a quick jaunt to the mall, visit a few stores to ask questions and/or see who has what in stock? However, being able to do any of those things is what people with vision, hearing & mobility take for granted.

Imagine how the world opens up for those previously unable to see the store hours or the display windows as they walk down Main Street. Let alone know who is having a surprise sale. GPS technologies are readily available to make these things possible. All that is missing is the information for devices to describe the immediate surroundings.

It has been a never ending struggle for accessibility advocates to get society to provide such basic amenities on any front. Thus refind takes a different, more engenious approach. With our organic data harvesting techniques and marketting initiatives to fuel the visibility engine, we can dangle the carrot infront of local community merchants (instant hassle free websites that can accessed from different devices) Such initiatives can finally turn the web into an organic, relevant real time self-updating community map that any one specific initiative could never accomplish. With the added bonus that the data acummulated equally serves multiple purposes for all members of society.

Secondly, like the signpost on entrance said, language must no longer impeed the global exchange of information. When you think about it, a t-shirt is still a t-shirt regardless what people around the globe call it. /refind.xml is all about enumerating objects and the relationship between them so that computers can finally understand these simple things. We exploit the fact that words are just textual window dressing over the mathematics. It is an absolute fundamental requirement that people can build & use the database in the language of their chosing. Not so much for the sheer simplicity of people adopting /refind.xml as a standard quicker if they could manipulate it in the familiarity of their mother tounges but because information has to be visible to anybody who asked.

For example, if an Icelandic kid one day surfs the net looking for clothes, they may not understand the text on clothing sites in New Delhi or Tokyo but they can grasp the pictures & maybe learning just a little more along the journey of life.

Imagine travelling abroad in a totally foreign city being able to use the gizmo you normally use back home and have it read back to you in your language, the menus, store displays, etc...

subdivisions

Thirdly, what good is producing all this culture unless it is entirely visible to future generations sifting through "all our yesterdays" looking for clues & answers. Is education possible without libraries and archives? Would the path of knowledge been as fruitful if whenever we had the desire to learn something we were told "yeah, yeah. i think we have a book with that. It's somewhere in here, just go find it. it's in one of these piles" yet that is exactly the legacy we pass onto future generations: billions of web pages in a randomly strewn dead media heap.

Not only is it critical that a classification infrastructure be put in place so that the web is immediately more library like but it must incorporate as many self-contained, self describing schemas so that information can be "perpetuity ready".

Life is a random chaotic chain of interwined events whose traces linger on. Using color to denote languages and the shapes for countries--yet the subdivisions are abitrary to any region; neighbourhood, etc..

To an outside observer, the above example shows the aftermath from the war of 2020 where country D was assimilated with their language lost and population nearly extinct. How after decades of ignoring global warming, the icebergs all melted; erroding the landscape followed by 2151 when civil strife and hatred amongst tribes

By tracking such simple things as boundaries (as defined by an external coordinate system) and languages--- if all these populations had xml documents, researchers would have a powerful tool to attempt determining answers:

Questions like show me what happened in this region over the last thousand years are now possible because of the xml framework. Then it doesn't matter what language, country, currencies, calendar, etc.. was inside each document because it will be easier for computers to translate, correlate and adjust to carry out the what ever computations are asked. Or researchers could examine songs and poems looking for clues (art as a reflection of the collective consciousness environment) of the times in reaction to events. Do we not want others to learn to not repeat our mistakes much like we had the benefit from past generations?

These are not lofty goals; Nor does it require technology devised by great minds from advanced futuristic civilizations: all it takes are these small intelligent steps as outlined.

Only by giving everybody today a stepping stone onto the semantic web through a classification infrastructure & an open source repository can we usher in information age beneficial to all.