As we may think-revisited [the future of the Internet]

摘要

With the approach of the 21st Century, computer and software technologies have changed the very fabric of our society. Beyond the sheer advances in processor speed, the most dramatic, far-reaching changes have occurred in the way we transfer information. Through the medium of the Internet, information can now be transmitted instantaneously from one end of the planet to the other. The future of information technology is bright, to be sure, but not without its challenges. For the Internet to enable us to achieve all our goals, it must gain a real-time context of who we are, our state and what we are doing. To this end, we must decouple context from the GUI and move it into a system built to hold it: a context engine. This system will let each of us organize our information according to the way we think, by association.