Putting aside the fact that this guy is being completely pedantic, the only real concrete ideas mentioned in the article are complete ripoffs of David Gelernter's work on changing file/folder structures. Watch this for a better explanation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gd6jX40Kn4
Then compare to this:
“Computing is made up of files and directories and that’s a tradition left behind from the 1940s that no one questions,” he said. “Another tradition is that one file equals one document.”
“[My approach] would be entirely different from today's documents where you look at one page at a time and you can see a ribbon or beam connecting documents together,”
Gelernter proposed a system setup not around a traditional file based system, but rather chronology, much like the way the brain organizes memories.
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Putting aside the fact that this guy is being completely pedantic, the only real concrete ideas mentioned in the article are complete ripoffs of David Gelernter's work on changing file/folder structures. Watch this for a better explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gd6jX40Kn4 Then compare to this: “Computing is made up of files and directories and that’s a tradition left behind from the 1940s that no one questions,” he said. “Another tradition is that one file equals one document.” “[My approach] would be entirely different from today's documents where you look at one page at a time and you can see a ribbon or beam connecting documents together,” Gelernter proposed a system setup not around a traditional file based system, but rather chronology, much like the way the brain organizes memories.