[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst

[Tuomas J. Lukka]

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--- manuscripts/FutureVision/vision.rst:1.50    Thu Sep 18 02:41:54 2003
+++ manuscripts/FutureVision/vision.rst Thu Sep 18 02:54:05 2003
@@ -49,14 +49,11 @@
   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
+abstractions such as "files" and "directories," the system
 should **center around the things we care about**,
-the people, appointments, plants, articles we read and so on. 
+the people, appointments, plants, articles we read and so on
+[#center-completely-around-items]_. 
 We propose a system
 in which these **items** (`Nelson 2000`_) are visible things
 that can be connected to each other; we propose,
@@ -500,12 +497,16 @@
 
 .. _`Nürnberg et al (1996)`:
 
+.. _`Nürnberg et al 1996`:
+
 **Nürnberg, P.J., Leggett, J.J., Schneider, E.R., Schnase, J.L.,** (1996)
 "Hypermedia Operating Systems: A New Paradigm for Computing".
 ACM Hypertext'96 proceedings, 194-202.
 
 .. _`Nürnberg et al (1997)`:
 
+.. _`Nürnberg et al 1997`:
+
 **Nürnberg, P.J., Leggett, J.J., Schneider, E.R., Schnase, J.L.,** (1997)
 "As We Should Have Thought".
 ACM Hypertext'97 proceedings, 96-101.
@@ -514,8 +515,13 @@
 Notes
 =====
 
-.. [#see-related-work] There are systems that allow new schemas
-   and information connecting - see `Related Work`_.
+.. [#center-completely-around-items] There are prototype
+   hypermedia systems that allow a file to contain 
+   varying schemas of information. However, to obtain
+   the real "next big thing" operating environment,
+   the items have to be first-class -- similar
+   to the ideas in HOSS/structural computing
+   (Nürnberg et al 1996, Nürnberg et al 1997).
 
 .. [#can-use-structcomp] An operating system with support
    for Structural Computing [XXXref] would provide a good