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Thanks for the response Bob. Part of the point in writing out these notes is to describe ALL of it WELL ENOUGH to then write the formal description of it. Every time I've tried to formally describe Gravity, it's changed considerably, and I've let it, knowing somehow that evolution works that way, and I should ride this baby till it's good and ready to settle down. What scares me is that I look around at what's being developed now, and I see so many parallels. Nothing I've run into encorporates ALL of my ideas, but the last year has proved to pretty scary. PostRez and OO databases are quite close, as is Ted Nelson's Xanadu. This last one gives me the heebie jeebies. Xanadu comes close to my plans for ThoughtShop (as they were two years ago). I'm not current on what's going on in my field. I'm always expecting people to say "Oh, that's just like XXX", which has happened so many times in my years of software design that I'm used to it. These parallel developments are to be expected. Things are evolving. I've got a hunch, though, that ALL OF IT, that is, my complete mix, is still new. Perhaps not for long, which is why the emphasis on the social side
of things. I was raised in an advertising agency, and know that
technological achievement is only half (perhaps less) the battle.
Better mousetraps abound, and the one that wins is the one that
gets people excited, that gets people motivated. My hunch has always
been to aim more at the creativist clan than the technology crew.
There's more wanna-be writers, painters, musicians, and poets around
than "computer-literate" people. They're the ones that'll
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