There is a new resource tool coming that everyone should check out. It's called Wolfram Alpha, a computational knowledge engine. It's not a search engine, it doesn't pull up websites like Google, instead it computes answers to fact-based questions. It is, quite literally, the sum of human knowledge at your fingertips.
You'll be able to ask it what the capital of a country is, what the speed of light is, or how long it takes a sound wave to travel from New York to Paris. It can provide the stock market history of Apple, calculate how cold it is on the dark side of the moon, or even tell you how much the Earth weighs.
This is exciting stuff! Keep checking the link, the site goes live some time this month.
You'll be able to ask it what the capital of a country is, what the speed of light is, or how long it takes a sound wave to travel from New York to Paris. It can provide the stock market history of Apple, calculate how cold it is on the dark side of the moon, or even tell you how much the Earth weighs.
This is exciting stuff! Keep checking the link, the site goes live some time this month.