The Web itself is becoming a kind of cyborg intelligence: human and machine, harnessed together to generate and manipulate information.
If automatability is to be a human right, then machine assistance must eliminate the drudge work involved in exchanging and manipulating knowledge.

This quote is from the paper "The Evolution of Web Documents:
The Ascent of XML" in which the authors illuminate the potential of XML as a markup language that describes content in intelligent terms.
XML was created to function behind the scenes, providing machines with information about documents that will facilitate decision making at the machine level.