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[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst
From: |
Tuomas J. Lukka |
Subject: |
[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Sep 2003 02:08:42 -0400 |
CVSROOT: /cvsroot/gzz
Module name: manuscripts
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Changes by: Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden> 03/09/18 02:08:42
Modified files:
FutureVision : vision.rst
Log message:
Intro and free software comment
CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/FutureVision/vision.rst.diff?tr1=1.41&tr2=1.42&r1=text&r2=text
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--- manuscripts/FutureVision/vision.rst:1.41 Thu Sep 18 02:06:33 2003
+++ manuscripts/FutureVision/vision.rst Thu Sep 18 02:08:42 2003
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
- structure our thoughts
-
We need a computer that helps us keep track of
- "Personal information": addresses, appointments, birthdays
@@ -42,10 +41,13 @@
- Work: budgets, employees, phone calls, courses we have taken, marks we got,
types of plants, classes in a program and structures in a plot
+Programs such as personal information managers only allow us to capture a small
+part of these in a fixed schema [#see-related-work]_.
+
Instead of being centered around irrelevant computery
abstractions like "files" and "directories," such a system
should **center around the things we care about**,
-the people, appointments, and so on. We propose a system
+the people, appointments, plants, articles we read and so on. We propose a
system
in which these **items** (`Nelson 2000`_) are visible things
that can be connected to each other; we propose,
in technical terms, a hypermedia system in which items
@@ -244,6 +246,11 @@
- intent: combine into applitudes, have metadata
+Free software
+
+ - situation in the software market is such that it's not likely
+ a new type of product could succeed commercially.
+
An example applitude combining multiple structures: FenPDF
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@@ -443,6 +450,9 @@
Notes
=====
+
+.. [#see-related-work] There are systems that allow new schemas
+ and information connecting - see `Related Work`_.
.. [#can-use-structcomp] An operating system with support
for Structural Computing [XXXref] would provide a good
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, (continued)
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/17
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/17
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/17
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/17
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst,
Tuomas J. Lukka <=
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/09/18