Forget search engines. The real revolution will come when we have research engines, intelligent Web helpers that can find out new things, not just what’s already been written. Facebook Graph Search isn’t anywhere near that good, but it’s a nice hint at greater things to come.
Neuroscientist Gary Marcus, author of Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning, on Facebook and the future of search, echoing Vannevar Bush’s 1945 vision for the future of knowledge.
