[GTALUG] information storage ideas
D. Hugh Redelmeier
hugh at mimosa.com
Sun Dec 13 18:11:13 EST 2020
A quarter century ago, I heard of "Lifestreams" as the future of this.
It seems to be pretty dead, but not a terrible idea.
<http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html>
Gelernter (co-inventor?) is pretty interesting.
- victim of Unibomber
- weirdly kind of right-wing
- inventor of "Linda", a model for parallel programming
- apparently very pro "intelectual property"
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gelernter>
Somehow this was part of a product of Scopeware software from Mirror
Worlds Technologies Inc. Most known for suing a bunch of companies and
winning (briefly, it turns out) US$625.5M from Apple.
See also this old blog entry: <https://lifestreamblog.com/about/>
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