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I sincerely find the ideas of Gelernter and Freeman utterly fascinating, but take note they've been talking about it for twenty years. See their academic page a

I sincerely find the ideas of Gelernter and Freeman utterly fascinating, but take note they've been talking about it for twenty years. See their academic page and this article from Wired www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.htmll & http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/fflifestreams_pr.html http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/fflifestreams_pr... Lifestreams have a strong smell of vaporware and Xanadu syndrome.

kawera 11y ago
Lifestreams were/are a facinating idea but I think Gelernter and Freeman weren't really doers. I've used Lifestrams for about 2 years and it was far from stable and had a lot of bugs under Solaris. Apple's TimeMachine UI[1] seems somehow "inspired" by Lifetream's[2]. [1] https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare/images/en_US/osx/tm_starfield.png https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare... [2] http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/03/17/lifestreams/ http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/03/17/lifestreams/