The future:

…which is even stranger when you consider that it’s predicting the release of itself.  Stay tuned.

I’ve been playing around on the preview, and while I’m not as impressed as I was by the initial (guided/rehearsed) demo searches, I’m still mighty curious.  As long as WolframAlpha survives, it certainly won’t get worse.  And there are already some interesting types of calculations it can summon.

There’s a whole world of math and physical usefulness, but much less so in the biological world, so far.  Is my impression.

We’ll see.

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