Re: [xml-dev] Beyond Ontologies

Roger L. Costello wrote:

> 
> Butterfly Effect - a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can
> transform storm systems next month in New York.
> 
> Beta vs VHS
> 
> Rummy World
> 
> 
> Conclusions: the Web is a complex system.  Semantics changes.
> 


The last one is just a word, not a classification.  Anyone have an
example where a new distinction, giving rise to a new
__classification__ term, spread rapidly?

Cheers,

Tom P