Google Achieves The Dream of Family Bliss

For years, I used to say, “When technology can stop the family argument cold by injecting fact into endless debates, we will be in IT nirvana.”  For example, my brothers and I around a dinner table could go ten rounds arguing over something stupid, like the date of Galileo’s birth, when all we had to do was get up from the table and consult an encyclopedia.  But no, instead, we would sit there pontificating over what we each thought had to be the correct date.

Well tonight, I loaded my Google Mobile Application app onto my iPhone 3G and SPOKE these words:  “When was Galileo Born?”  And LO!  It understood my voice perfectly and returned a web site entry:  Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa Italy on February 15th, 1564.

End of argument.  End of history.  IT has achieved the limit of my imagination, and now I guess I’ll have to focus on life science. 

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