I guess I've been somewhat vague about the Oracles. Let me just say that in the beginning, the Oracle will simply be members of the community. If someone has a question about Physics, for example, it can be asked in the Physics Questions forum in the form of a question. The moderator and members of the community can answer the question.
The next step is to assign members to the Oracle who are knowledgeable or experts in the Oracle's realm. The experts will be notified when questions are asked and will provide their individual answers. As the pool of knowledgeable persons increases the answers will improve.
The next step must remain somewhat vague, but involves aggregating the knowledge of the experts and presenting a more unified and comprehensive response. This is where the product of many minds becomes something greater than what any one mind can offer and relates to the
ToeQuest Vision Statement.
I'd like to be able to show the question, a comprehensive answer, and then the discussion thread, purged of meaningless chatter, that feeds into the answer.
--Robert