Please don’t get me wrong — I love twitter. I use it to share ideas, ask questions, etc.
but Twitter has a down side : people think and act in micro mind-bites.
But the internet is much bigger and better. One of the most interesting examples,
which I hope will continue to develop is Wolfarmalpha.
It is a search engine for numbers. Difficult to explain… better look at the movie…
Here’s what they say:
Making the World’s Knowledge Computable
Today’s Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing.