JS_Harris - 11:14 pm on May 3, 2009 (gmt 0)

Imagine a person who has seen everything, done everything and has retained all possible knowledge from each and every single event.

That's Google - able to retrieve whatever you're looking for from an enormous database as quickly as if you were asking this person face to face.

Wolfram seems to be a different beast, not only is all the knowledge there but it's being analyzed and compared in some ingenious ways.

The only flaw that I can speculate on is that the end user, the human performing a search, will just not have and perhaps never have the ability to grasp whats being done.

The video is a must watch, poor angles aside, but until society values Wolfram (28,000 views) more than Britney Spears (a bazillion views) I don't think the ambition behind Wolfram can truly make enough of an impact to make significant change. Thanks for the video link.