[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

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Changes by:     Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>      03/09/14 15:33:31

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        FutureVision   : vision.rst 

Log message:
        paste my ramblings from IRC, as a starting point for narrative about 
what makes Fenfire special (item-based hypermedia desktop environment :)

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-RDF and ZigZag(tm) structure are actually closely
-related: ZigZag(tm) is obtained if a RDF graph is constrained
-by two uniqueness conditions: for all x, y, there can be
-at most one triple of the form (x, y, *),  and 
-at most one triple of the form (*, x, y).
+From IRC, starting to explain what this is all about (by Benja)::
 
+    > this was very good-- I think I understand *much* better now...
+    > first thing I realized was that before the last few days, 
+      it has been Fenfire = 42 for me:
+    > I had a relatively clear idea about how it'll work, and it was 
+      completely clear that this is the right way to do things--
+    > so I had the answer, so over the last few days I've 
+      really been wondering, what was the question? ;-)
+    > the question, I think, is: How can hypermedia become an extension 
+      to our mind? -- this has been the vision all along 
+      since Vannemar Bush, in some senses at least, and also in 
+      the mobile computing field in a sense
+    > so that we feel it like, well, an extension
+    > and the answer is: with an item-based hypermedial 
+      (desktop? computing?) environment
+    > i.e., the point about fenfire/zz/hyperstructure is that it 
+      *reifies the things you care about as first-class items*
+    > s/items/objects/
+    > How can hypermedia become the thing that we use daily, 
+      without thinking about it, when we're thinking about 
+      something *else*?
+    > this is what sets hyperstructure apart from e.g. 
+      navigational hypertext:
+    > the things that you connect hypertextually are *concepts*
+    > ok, this isn't in itself a new idea I'm sure; there are systems 
+      that use it, and Aquanet is one of them
+    > the point is to make *this* the basis of *all computing*
+    > which may be seen as an evolutionary step-- but there you are, 
+      this is what we're doing
+    > everything else you do when you use your system wraps around that
+    > you don't have applications, which tell you how to think-- 
+      you have views that show a part of the structure in a useful way, 
+      but still are woven into the item-based structure.
 
 
 
 
+RDF and ZigZag(tm) structure are actually closely
+related: ZigZag(tm) is obtained if a RDF graph is constrained
+by two uniqueness conditions: for all x, y, there can be
+at most one triple of the form (x, y, *),  and 
+at most one triple of the form (*, x, y).