Uber British mathematician and physicist Stephen Wolfram’s latest creation has been revealed to the world. You’ve gotta give WolframAlpha.com a try. It might look like a search engine, but it’s very different. It’s a computational logic engine - the beginning of a huge project designed to make all systematic knowledge, instantly computable. What does that mean? Well, try this: my electric bike is reputed to go 20 miles on one charge. I can travel at 25mph on it and I want to know how long my battery will last me in time. If I enter ‘20 miles at 25 mph’ into Google, I get a list of rather irrelevant pages from other people’s sites. If I put ‘20 miles at 25 mph’ into WolframAlpha I get the time in seconds and minutes (2880 secs or 48 mins). The computers behind the site work out, from my plain English, what I’m after and boom, I have my answer - along with a bunch of other mathematically related info. It’s like an real life version of Skynet (the fictional computer system that gives rise to the robots in Terminator). Indeed, & this is really cool, I asked WolframAlpha ‘Are you Skynet’ and the image above is the answer he gave! (yep, it’s a joke based on the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey with HAL’s iconic red eye in the middle of the logo. Genius.)