
In these days there has been much fuzzing about the new browsing with files organizing themselves with the help of meta data. Maybe you ask yourself "What have this to do with the spatial browsing in gnome and how can it improve the browsing?". That's what I did. As I see it, the gnome people have introduced the spatial browsing so we are used to it when this new browsing is coming to town. This is very intelligent move of the gnome people and will help us adopt faster to this. This is when the spatial browsing is really making sense. I hope you see this when you've read this article.
The computer is never going to be able to categorize data for you. It's a dumb adding machine; no amount of logical suger coating is going to change that.
Yes and no, they are very stupid, that's true. However, there has to be some method of statistical analysis combined with user feedback that could implement machine learning.
Also, I would agree with you that it doesn't make sense to metatag everything, as there isn't a complete solution integrating the interface with applications.