malderi

Where do you see Wolfram Alpha in five years?

What made you guys decide to put in so many amazing easter eggs into it?

What's the breakdown of the Alpha team? I'm curious how many programmers you have, vs. mathematicians and other specialties. Not necessarily absolute numbers if those are secret but proportions would be very interesting to me.

$30 million doesn't even buy a rocket to get to the moon (even Falcon 9 is $50m). Obviously entrants will have to have other funding or income to compete. Why was $30 million chosen? Was a larger number considered, but rejected due to funding constraints? Or was it to encourage outside business models?

Thank you very much in advance!

Thank you!

When is Freespace 3 coming out? :-)

You write a lot of (very funny and insightful) rants on your blog. Sometimes they have specific suggestions for fixing problems with the legal system, but not always. I'm especially interested in your civil free speech work - if you were a Congressman or Senator, what would you try to do to change the laws?