A search engine that predicts the future

The future:

wolframalpha

…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.