Chief Prognosticator

Prediction: The Truth Machine

In the era of the Semantic web, I see a very amazing application: The Truth Machine. In natural language, you type in something you want to know, e.g.

“Who Invented the Internet?”

The search agent goes through the entire web and assembles “the truth”.

Instead of returning pages with this text (a la Web 1.0 / 2.0), the search agent quantifies and qualifies the data to come up with a succinct answer (most likely in terms of probability). For example, the answer should be something like:

“There is no one inventor of the Internet, it was created and built upon a series of inventions and advances in communication technology, primary participants in this process were Kahn and Cerf, Researchers at ARPANET, and Researchers at CERN” – 95%

Think of it as a Web 3.0 version of “Fact Check dot Org” but instant and limitless.