Clever people, what do you think this will mean for museums?
Big new thing coming from Wolfram Alpha
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2013/11/something-very-big-is-coming-our-most-important-technology-project-yet/
He says:
"inside the Wolfram Language we have a whole computable model of the
world. And it becomes trivial to write a program that makes use of the
latest stock price, computes the next high tide, generates a street
map, shows an image of a type of airplane, or a zillion other things."
And it will lead to...
"There?ll be the Wolfram Programming Cloud, that allows one to create
Wolfram Language programs, then instantly deploy them in the cloud
through an instant API, or a form-based app, or whatever. Or deploy
them in a private cloud, or, for example, through a Function Call
Interface, deploy them standalone in desktop programs and embedded
systems. And have a way to go from an idea to a fully deployed
realization in an absurdly short time.
There?ll be the Wolfram Data Science Platform, that allows one to
connect to all sorts of data sources, then use the kind of automation
seen in Wolfram|Alpha Pro, then pick out and modify Wolfram Language
programs to do data science?and then use CDF to set up reports to
generate automatically, on a schedule, through an API, or whatever.
There?ll be the Wolfram Publishing Platform that lets you create
documents, then insert interactive elements using the Wolfram Language
and its free-form linguistics?and then deploy the documents, on the
web using technologies like CloudCDF, that instantly support
interactivity in any web browser, or on mobile using the Wolfram Cloud
App.
Yours in bafflement
Bridget
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