[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

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        FutureVision   : vision.rst 

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        'can implement with structural computing'

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--- manuscripts/FutureVision/vision.rst:1.37    Thu Sep 18 01:14:16 2003
+++ manuscripts/FutureVision/vision.rst Thu Sep 18 01:27:23 2003
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 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
-are first-class objects. 
+are first-class objects [#can-use-structcomp]_. 
 
 Such a system could look as shown in Figure 1.
 
@@ -91,12 +91,11 @@
    __ full-document-connections.gen.png
 
 Instead of having separate applications, we would have **views** 
-for specific kinds of information, which would be seamlessly 
+for **specific kinds of information**, which would be seamlessly 
 integrated into the system.
-
-For example, a historian might XXX
-
-
+For example, a historian might want to mark places on a map,
+connecting them to the events that have taken place there,
+and they might want to show the events on a zoomable timeline.
 
 
 
@@ -419,6 +418,10 @@
 
 Notes
 =====
+
+.. [#can-use-structcomp] An operating system with support
+   for Structural Computing [XXXref] would provide a good
+   basis for implementing this.
 
 .. [#fig1note] This visualization has parallels in
    focus+context and hyperbolic tree views [XXXref].