Gartner's Top 10 Disruptive Technologies for 2008-2012

Gartner's Top 10 Disruptive Technologies for the next 4 years. From my pal Chris Tacy over IM, "Don't they mean 2002-2008?" In bold, areas that I have direct and indirect involvement with in my work life in the data-intensive world of electronic finance, and would concur that they are very today. But what's #10 about? And I don't understand at all what they are talking about for #5. Are they saying "meaning" is a disruptive technology?

1. Multicore and hybrid processors
2. Virtualisation and fabric computing
3. Social networks and social software
4. Cloud computing and cloud/Web platforms
5. Web mashups
6. User Interface
7. Ubiquitous computing
8. Contextual computing
9. Augmented reality
10. Semantics

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Any experience I've had with "semantics" involves highly categorized content and information. "Tagging" systems and services like del.icio.us and the newly introduced twine.com are examples of "the semantic web." -- Twine more-so...