[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/FutureVision vision.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

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 Abstract
 ========
 
-Computers need to help us **organizing our lives**, rather
-than making them more difficult. The "next big thing"
-will be a system that allows us to **structure information
-around items, things that we care about**, such as people, arguments
-and ideas, rather than directories and files, and helps
-us to understand how these items are related.
+Computers should help us with **organizing our lives**, rather
+than making them more difficult. We need
+a system **structured** around **items** -- 
+**things that we care about**, such as people, arguments and ideas 
+(rather than
+directories and files).
+
+Based on Ted Nelson's ideas,
+we propose a computing environment based on a **hyperstructure**,
+a user-visible data structure for **connecting related items**
+and storing information about them (using typed bi-directional links).
 
-We present a design for a computing environment
-built around this notion, using a *hyperstructure*, 
-a user-visible data structure for relating items
-to each other in different contexts.
 We also discuss Fenfire, our implementation-in-progress,
-which XXX{buoys and buoy+loom UI}.
+and related user interface innovations
+particularly suited to hyperstructure.