Today’s Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing…
The illustrations are based on the classic Rider-Waite tarot, generally considered the de facto standard among modern tarot decks.
Building an archive of ALL documented human languages
The Rosetta Disk is intended to be a durable archive of human languages, as well as an aesthetic object that suggests a journey of the imagination across culture and history. We have attempted to create a unique physical artifact which evokes the great diversity of human experience as well as the incredible variety of symbolic systems we have constructed to understand and communicate that experience.
Fifty to ninety percent of the world’s languages are predicted to disappear in the next century, many with little or no significant documentation.