Someone on the on the online-news mailing list pointed out that Scopeware offers Vision Search, which is what Gelertner was talking about as an interface (screenshot). Scopeware is by Mirror Worlds Technologies, Gelertner’s company.
Fueled by the research and writings of Dr. David Gelernter, world-renowned Yale professor and our Chief Scientist, and Dr. Eric Freeman, Mirror Worlds Technologies was established in 1997 to develop and commercialize the patented technology based on this premise.
This makes the essay seem a bit more like self-serving marketing, at least in its interface ideas — but still provoking, in the best ways.
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1 clock — watching time, the only true currency » » Time Machine…a popular version of Lifestreams? // Aug 8, 2006 at 7:57 am
[...] But what I was struck by was that Time Machine appears to be the first popular evocation of Lifestreams, the Eric Freeman and David Gelertner attempt to replace the desktop metaphor from a decade ago. By popular, I mean something that people will actually see and (maybe) use. Gelertner’s software company MirrorWorlds appears to have slipped away, and the domain leads to a parked page. So does Scopeware, which was the name of the company in 2003, when I last noticed this idea in the wild. [...]
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