On a related note, it would be nice to make a program that spit out related facts to whatever you were listening to or reading. So, if Michele Bachmann said something inane like: “President Obama has the lowest public approval ratings of any president in modern times.”, the approval rating would appear for you to see.
Seems to me that that is exactly what his software is determined to do. The ultimate gotcha-question-insta-feedback-loop. I like this idea and am anxious to see how these kind of applications might progress in the future. I remember seeing one debate, in '08 I think, where every member of the audience had a device with a turn knob that would real-time feed their approval of the on going events minute by minute. The ticker at the bottom of the screen was able to sort that input into demographic fields i.e. age, party-line, sex etc. Now imagine running this truth telling machine through other kinds of detection software like body language and perspiration levels. Could be interesting. One thing I should say though that continually makes me a bit nervous is that these programs are always written by someone and of course can never be perfect. Our biases, whether we like it or not, have a way of seeping into the things that we build.