I have often faced the challenge – a person comes to me and asks “what is semantic technology?” Especially, when one linguist wanted to know how do I define semantics (in IT)? – I had to step back and do some home work on the topic. We IT guys are notorious to abuse any term from any domain whenever we need a yet another buzz word to mystify some basic concepts. So, this is what I came up as tried to explain to her what semantic technology is in nutshell.