[Design] lifestreams demo up

[da - dan ancona]

David Gelernter in the NY Times, last Thursday...

"I have time for only one screen in my life. That screen had better give
me access to everything, everywhere.

What is this universal information structure? A narrative stream, which
says, "Let me tell you a story. " The system shows you a 3-D stream of
electronic documents flowing through time. The future (where you store
your calendar, reminders, plans) flows into the present (where you keep
material you're working on right now) and on into the past (where every
e-mail message and draft, digital photo, application, virtual Rolodex
card, video and audio clip and Web bookmark is stored, in addition to all
those calendar notes and reminders that used to be part of the future and
have since flowed into the past to be archived forever)."

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/07/technology/circuits/07soft.html

I like his approach ("our task is to squander [computational resources]
creatively"), and yet I can't believe he gets away with publishing
scopeware marketing copy under the guise of a column in the New York
freakin' Times. (actual quote: "How do I know it will work? Because our
company has built it, and it does.")

There's a beta of some kind up at www.scopeware.com now.

dan