Mathematica already provides a framework of computational interactivity that is sufficiently general and automated enough to begin the task of building the kind of new internet that will move from simply linking static webpages with disconnected pieces of semi-structured data, such as embedded data and video, into a new world of integrating this content across the web of everything in a way that can be studied, dynamically archived, and modeled numerically.Īs noted by Lord Kelvin, if you can’t express ideas in numbers, then your ideas scarcely reach the level needed to science. It is perhaps the first computational context that may be sufficiently general and capable of facilitating the study and modeling of the natural world in an efficient manner. Multiple computer simulations all point to the same general outcome now … they differ only in details.īut I can say this: If your legacy to the world is that you leave everyone with a tool that really allows them to compute solutions to their problems – then perhaps our species will have a fighting chance!!Īs a fish taxonomist and systematist, I see the Wolfram Language is a very exciting development. Or at least, I can surely say that tremendous upheavals are coming to our world because we are rapidly moving down an unsustainable road. Why did I happen to mention this unusual scenario? Because it is “baked into the cake”. However, I do believe that if you search around you will find someone with a rare talent who can help complete that picture … to design an educationa tool so a girl in an African ghetto could pick up the Wolfram Language and start rolling with it! This is no small feat, but I think it is do-able.
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I know of very few software systems that have ever had good learnin interfaces … they all claim fell short. You need to get people over the hump of the learning curve. It has to form a bridge between peoples’ minds and the Wolfram Language. A good educational tool needs to be be brilliantly “intuitive”. This is no trivial undertaking – really it’s not. You have devoted am immense amout of work to developing the Wolfram Language, The one thing that is still missing really is an online educational tool that could take people who are at “ground zero” with their computing skills – and get them going with your new product. The truth is that you are now 95% of the way to the positive outcome I am describing – giving people ANYWHERE on Earth that chance to compute their destiny. On that tablet is the Wolfram Language! With that tool, she could begin to express her thoughts – she could begin to start computing a solutuion to her problems!! But she does have an alert mind, and someone hands her a working computer tablet. She has literally nothing … no schools … no tutors … hardly even enough food and water to survive that day. Somewhere in Africa a young girl is standing in a burned-out city.
Imagine the year is 2060 and ten billion people are squeezed into an overcrowded world. I am going to give you an entirely different viewpoint about why I see the Wolfram Language as an important global asset. I’d like you to pause for a moment and switch reference frames. After all, we already have Mathematica as a computing language – so why is th Wolfram Language important? But YES, on further thought I do agree that you have delivered a remarkable new computing resource to the world. It took me a few moments to grasp the significance of what you are saying here. I have been using your products since Mathematica 2 was released. Congratulations on the new “Wolfram Language”.
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