[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

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 (There may be more than one view available for the same item.
 The user can choose between alternative views through a menu.)
 
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+Such an environment would not only help us structure the
+information we already store in our computers, it may also
+help us to **organize our thoughts**.
 
-OLD STUFF:
+Paper notes don't work: Unless you are really tidy, you
+have to remember that you took a note about a subject
+a year ago, or you won't find it. If we could connect
+our thoughts and ideas to the subjects they are about,
+they would be in the place we need them. If we connect all
+the arguments that come to mind to the counter-arguments
+that we have considered, we would not have to think
+through them again.
 
-Hypermedia was meant to be an extension to the mind.  "As We May Think,"
-Vannemar Bush entitled his famous article (`Bush 1945`_); 
+Hypermedia was meant to be an extension to the mind: 
+Vannemar Bush entitled his famous article "As We May Think" (`Bush 1945`_);
 `Engelbart (1962)`_
 set "Augmenting Human Intellect" as his goal, and `Nelson (1965)`_
 envisioned a system "holding everything [a novelist or absent-minded
 professor] wanted in just the way he wanted it to be held."
+
+An item-centered computing environment may help to
+fulfill this promise.
+
+The remainder of this paper is structured as follows. XXX
+
 
 Example scenarios
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