[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst

[Tuomas J. Lukka]

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+++ 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
 ----------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -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