Ahaha the catchphrase
In short, the information age needs an information super-highway and not just a big pipe for interactive documents.
About academia and industry:
Academia is structured in a way that there is very little incentive for anyone to build usable software. Instead you are elevated for rapidly throwing together an idea, a tiny proof of concept, and to iterate on microscopic variations of this thing to produce as many papers as possible.
In engineering the devil is in the detail. You really need to get into the weeds before you can know what the right thing to do is. This is simultaneously a devastating situation for industry and academia. Nobody is going to wait around for a team of engineers to finish building a system to write about it in Academia. You'll be passed immediately by legions of paper pushers. And in industry, you can't just be mucking about with a system that you might have to throw away.
And Semantic Web seems to be something to learn about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web