Interesting question and answer near the end:<p>-----------------------------------<p>The European: In contrast to Google or Facebook, you are not dealing with personal data at the moment, but the thrust seems to be going in that direction. How might that change WolframAlpha, and what new challenges does it raise?<p>Wolfram: We know that we can do scarily well at computing things about people. When you look up someone on the web, it’s noisy and messy. But by combining different data sources – particularly in the United States, where many sources are publicly available – we can pretty much nail a precise report about a particular person. For the time being, we have decided not to do it because the bad appears to outweigh the good. I feel somewhat squeamish about it. My guess is that it will eventually happen, but it’s not a trail I want to blaze.<p>-----------------------------------
Made it about 3 sentences in before closing the tab in disgust as Wolfram's ego interjects when asked about Turing, and he claims that Turing got distracted and so failed to create concrete computation, so that task was "left to me." Ugh.