Despite years of research in agent technologies, software agents are still not in widespread use. A major problem has been the lack of infrastructure and significant amounts of machine-readable information to allow agents to accomplish things meaningful to most of us. The advent of the World Wide Web, XML and now DAML provides the capability to markup very large amounts of information and the development of the agents to exploit that markup will follow close behind. It will become compelling to markup your information in a machine-readable format. If one company has their information available for use by agents and another company does not, the first company will have a significant competitive advantage. The same situation will exist for military Web sites that are trying to get important information out to key subscribers. Once the ball starts rolling and the tools become available to make it easy to use machine-readable markup, the transformation into the Semantic Web will begin to accelerate rapidly.