I caught a short post at Audioblog about the future with WinFS:
The days of using folders as categories/metadata to organize files may be behind us. Well not quite yet. In 3 years if we're lucky.
The sad thing is that so many people have not yet discovered David Gelernter's narrative user interface and the simple, elegant knowledge management system it offers. Scopeware is, I suspect, more powerful, useful and easier to use than Longhorn (Microsoft's promised new operating system now projected for availability in 2006). And yet, it remains relatively obscure.
This amazes me, especially when there has been so much positive press about the software over the past year. "Gelernter's 'narrative information system' will change the world of computing." - Red Herring
"Scopeware is a revolution, one of those simple-sounding ideas that seem obvious in retrospect." - Internet World
"To try the Gelernter system is to fall in love with it. It is elegant, easy, natural, and beautiful. It will prevail." - Gilder Technology Report
"[Scopeware is] a powerful office productivity tool that can cut your business chores down to size." - PC Magazine
