Google has a new free service:
You can call from any phone, state a business (think: order pizza) and location, connect to the business, and get that business’s service (pizza delivery). I have posted recently on how the synapse in the brain and the connectors (nodes) in the Internet are a major key to creating learning patterns in the open Internet. GOOG-411 is an Internet node that functions just like a synapse in the brain, connecting remote stuff.
Educators could think of GOOG-411 as a model for a learning network synapse/node. With a future edu-service, could a student input a query for current data for oceanography, astronomy, electoral polling — any of many location based subjects — and get the current data as quickly as Google now delivers your pizza? Sure. Somebody just needs to do it.
