The largest Farmers Calendar in the world

After spending a few hours playing with the newly launched Wolframalpha "computational knowledge engine", I was rolling on the floor, laughing in tears. Here is a beautiful example to the query "What is C++?"

Of course, while it knows everything about itself, it does not know other more mundane facts such as "What is Fortran" or any other language for that matter, not to mention its commercial rival Matlab!

An interesting answer was returned also to the query "What is Blaise Pascal first name?"

In short, the parsing capabilities of this self-proclaimed "computational knowledge engine" appear to be extremely poor, even when compared to less ambitious projects such as trueknowledge or cyc and make it closer to just a large database.

But what troubles me the most and ultimately prompted me to write this post, is the process of facts selection (curing) for this glorified Farmer's calendar known as Wolframalpha.

Wikipedia has, for instance, such a democratic approach to information that our collective knowledge becomes what the majority decides the truth to be, whereas in WA, the truth is nothing but what the oracle of Stefan Wolfram decides it to be.

It is sad to remark how the majority of the people in the western world tends more and more to confuse information with knowledge.

While the origin of such confusion can be easily rooted in pure greed economy (information can be sold cheaper than knowledge, and it does not appear to be limited), it is as if we were given pig's pods to eat and not realizing it.
We need to come to our senses, realize our sin and ask forgiveness to Our Father, the true source of all knowledge.