> In Science Fiction over and over again the trope was of a giant computer that acted like an oracle. In many ways we're doing that exact thing. The computer a

> In Science Fiction over and over again the trope was of a giant computer that acted like an oracle. In many ways we're doing that exact thing. The computer at my desk is powerful but somewhat useless; the grand oracle in the form of Google et. al. does the real heavy lifting of giving me useful information. Whether it's a single computer or a bunch of separate ones acting as a whole is pretty immaterial in that sense.