John points out “an interview with David Gelernter in the Jan/Feb ‘02 American Spectator. He says desktops are obsolete.”
Of course — would you really want to use a 30-year old interface paradigm invented by a printed paper duplication company to handle all your information management needs?
Gelernter’s right about the problems with the paradigm, but I’m not sure that Lifestreams — kind of a fancy weblog, after all — is the be-all end-all, either. Look at some of the clever indexing schemes at Meatball for instance.
More Gelernter: videotape of Gelernter describing Lifestream at the American Spectator site; and his The Second Coming — A Manifesto.
Thanks for the pointer, John!