42: interoperability and computational knowledge a fun early ride….


Ever felt happy using your computer? Well today I had one of those rare moments, when my face smiled from ear to ear while tryin’ the infamous new quest to human knowledge. WolframAlpha, is still in the first crawling modes, but computational knowledge have never been so easy to reach [intro-show]. WA won’t answer all my questions to life, universe and everything [D. Adams], but you bet I will be unbeatable in any Pub Quiz going forward using Cuil, Blinkx and WolframAlfa in a nice combo of Question:Answer sessions, topped with a pint of Guiness.

If the answer is 42 ( my age very soon, still being a man in his prime, 41), we all ask ourselfs what is the question?

Well, in my practice working with information management issues, I pretty often ran across interoperability problems when diving into the wast informtion environment of any large scale corporate landscape. Business Intelligence crowds, wish their cubes and datawarehouse binary & digits filled respositories could be as fluent as WA to the end-users never ending quest to make up new possible matchmaking efforts. Even before getting there, we need to take all the data to the laundry. From my very narrow perspective, I forsee WA-fused apps in the corporate landscape where internal data will be matched real-time with WA engine public domain knowledge. As intel inside logo, we will get apps all over the place with WA enabled.

Math will be the most sexy major subject of them all: imagine a classroom at University crowded with newly enlighted pupils, and equally gender based šŸ˜‰

I wish I had a snippet of brain capacity from Dr Wolfram, but hell no. I am a mediocre ‘wannabe’… Well in times of crowdsourcing You don’t have to be the smartest IQ wise person. Good enough will do, and adding time and spritit and networking skills to the pot, will give even you a taste of knowledge/expert amongst peers and friends. This is why I found it a bit strange that, apart from the community at the site, there were no visible way to connect users using the WA-engine? and by that visualise new ground breaking ways of constructing clever questions…. well I am pretty sure that this will be amended in WBeta or even before that.

Well now I gotta invent ‘clever’ questions, and that isn’t all to easy. I have the answer, 42 but will I do with that? Friends, that is what we all will see in the future that is a bit sunnier today.

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