A Bahá'í-inspired blog aimed at addressing many issues- local and global. This blog is meant to serve as inspiration and a resource for those who just want to make the world a better place through social and economic development. This site has links to other sites pre-categorized for readers. Viewers can comment on posts and give feedback on what they want from this blog.
Today, we are living in a world that demands new strategies to survive. Energy is a very big topic worldwide. Please share your ideas about what the world should do to solve its problems.
For example, should we use farm-grown energy like ethanol? Should we continue to search our planet for more oil?
Should we invest in more-elaborate alternative energies like solar, wind, and geothermal energies?
We want your input. Please comment below this post.
So many innovations have sprung from the Internet and the World Wide Web. From email to social networking sites to blogs like this one, the web has significantly strengthened communications around the world while spreading information. Just over a year old, Wolfram|Alpha, another web innovation, has already revolutionized access to computational knowledge.
What is Wolfram|Alpha? W|A is not, as some call it, a search engine. Steven Wolfram, creator ofW|A, calls it a computational knowledge engine, as it does not just puke back sites that may have answers, such as Google. Backed by twenty years of research, W|A utilizes a database of curated data from expert sources and trillions of algorithms to directly give you the answers. The main goal of W|A is "to makeall systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone" and "to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything."
The numerous categories that W|A separates its data is impressive as well. Categories include mathematics, statistics and data analysis, physics, chemistry, engineering, web and computer systems, units and measures, dates and times, socioeconomic data, health and medicine, culture and media, and people and history.
W|A's potential is perhaps the most exciting of all. Popular Science magazine identified W|A as the "Best of What's New" Grand Award winner of 2009, while W|A had only existed for eight months. In some schools around the world, W|A is being used by students and teachers alike to enhance academic learning. But W|A, as well as computational sciences in general, is still in its infancy. In 50 years, W|A will not only have much more data and algorithms. W|A could be a common tool of everyday life, used by schools, businesses, government, and perhaps even the majority of internet users. One way W|A has already begun to do that by enabling web developers to create widgets that only perform specific calculations and add them to their website.
All in all, W|A may play in the future an enormous role in not only computing answers to questions but also in educating and putting professional knowledge into the hands of people of every race, ethnicity, religion, class, and country.
