Operating Systems Are Irrelevant

zincks writes "David Gelernter (Yale Professor of Computer Science, and Unabomber target) has a story in the NY Times which states, (1) Operating systems are relics of the past, (2) We should be able to access data anytime/anywhere, by (3) seeing a stream of 3D documents(?), so (4) he's written such software, and (5) that's all you should care about so it doesn't matter that it runs under windows. This is a fantastic (definition: based on fantasy : not real (?)) vision of the future by a premier technologist."

Comments

Re:Sounds kinda like X

[XorNand]

You bring up a good point about the parallels of the orginal intention Web. This idea, while very cool, is practical only in the ivory towers of acadamia. One only has to look at the commerical consolidation of mass media that has eroded the 'net. The people with the Money(tm) have no interest in allowing something as socialistic as this see the light of day. In their eyes, they can't make a profit off of something that they don't own and control.

Screenshots (v1.0?)

[Exos]

Since their "solid" and "reliable" web-server can't seem to handle a minor posting to slash , I dredged the web [google.com] and came upon an older (circa '01) article with some screenshots.

• Screenshots
• Scopeware - Stream view
• Scopeware - List view.

Pretty innovative stuff....eh? (sarcasm).