Hello, there are 2 recent news that are worth looking at : http://singularityhub.com/2011/08/29/pre-cog-is-real-%E2%80%93-new-software-... http://singularityhub.com/2011/09/25/supercomputer-predicts-revolution/ This reminds me of that old idea of Isaac Asimov about psycho-history that everybody found kind of way out at the time (including me)!, This means that with enough computer juice and a suitable set of data, like hundreds of millions of articles an heuristic program can predict 'something'. A good question is, they had this Watson machine capable of answering a general question, then this engine that can predict a political movement and that later one that can predict human behaviour, then what's next ?? Best regards, Simon Plouffe