Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 10:07:04 EDT
From: jpl3 (Joe Lucia)
Subject: Re: Gravity Fifteen
To: tf01 (TIMOTHY FALCONER)

Techno-babble is not the problem. What I can't help but wonder is how you distinguish GRAVITY from the plethora of information mapping, storage, and exchange technologies that are already in place? Why is it necessary? What does it give us that others don't? You've spent a lot of time presenting us with semi-technical descriptions of a "system" that I have no clear sense of yet, functionally, operationally. If you can't say in one short paragraph just what GRAVITY is and how it will be useful, in quite precise terms that don't shade off into rhetoric about a revolutionary intelligent communication system that enables creative exchange in some (to me) still mysterious fashion, then the whole project (if that's what it is) seems (again,to me) dead in the water, more an elaborate phantasm than anything with the promise of usefulness on however narrow a level. It's not mail, it's not a bulletin board system, it's not an electronic publishing mechanism...what is it beside a proliferating descriptive scheme for some as yet unthinkable entity?

Joe Lucia