Wolfram Alpha > Google?

[Death Engineer]

http://bit.ly/UgNFI

This is some really cool technology. It's no substitution for a good education, but this is a really handy tool that I can see myself using quite a bit.

[FUS1ON]

That is truly amazing but like you mentioned, I feel people will forget how to use their brains.

Give a hungry person a fish and you feed them for a day,
Teach them to fish for themselves and you feed them for a lifetime.

[JIMINATOR]

Its interesting, but I suspect it relies on data that can be easily organized and indexed. If it takes off i suspect google will probably buy them. other problem I see is that people can get lazy (like shogun said) and rely on the data which might lead to bad results as there are always multiple ways to interpret the same data.

[Dan2]

Excellent idea! Looks like a great resource to get direct answers instead of wading through links. Hopefully they won't be subscription based.

[Ra\/en]

wow. crazy stuff. I think I could see myself wasting a good amount of time on this.

[SASQUATCH]

Good stuff, it will help me a lot.

Sweet -

[Suicidal]

Very Cool....I can help my kid with his Calculus homework now :)

He won't need you! He's got Wolfram Alpha!

I don't believe many people will sacrifice an education with the existence of this. Like it said itself, it's for computational data. There are other types of intelligence around, so I don't think people will ever say "I don't need school; I have the Internet!" but for all we know, the future will allow downloading knowledge straight from a computer to our brains!

Man, though, this thing is going to be awesome.