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I still don't understand how this is going to change the world.

The bar for people claiming something will change the world is really low now.

If a computer program can sift though, gather, analyze, summarize, interpret, and convey information much, much faster (and presumably more accurately) than humans can do right now, the implications will be astounding!

For example, the pace of progress will dramatically speed up. Rather than the tedium of gathering, analyzing, and interpreting empirical data currently done by research assistants, complex information gathering and summarization will be automated and almost instantaneous.

With answers at your fingertips in an instant, the rate at which we can learn and share ideas/data/findings/news will accelerate.

Any time the acceleration of learning/knowledge sharing increases, the world changes. Our own history tells us this.

It seems like this is the new version of wikipedia instead of google.

It's a neat idea, but once you have a tool that's summarizing data automatically for you, the validity/accuracy of that data has to go up. It's awfully hard to come to your own conclusions with a brief summary than with multiple sources and doing the basic analysis yourself.

Still, if the data is good, I can see this tool being very useful.

Change the world?

I hope it works on the dash of my Segway as I lean through Segway City, the city built around Segways.

Back in the 50's they thought there would only be one big computer - "SuperVac" you would ask it a question and it would give you an answer. Data, Research, Calculations = BORING.

Also - this reeks of the same early 90's hype over Ask Jeeves Intelligent Parsing all over again.
When has an answers service ever changed the world?

This ignores what makes 'surfing the web' interesting.

I don't need a 'single definitive page' i can blindly follow. I want a range of information i can judge for myself.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com

it saves lives, people...saves lives.

It's a fascinating company, I'm curious to see where this goes.

would be great to ask it questions vocally and have it answer them audibly like some future onboard computer, or knight rider's Kitt
the technology's there.

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