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Story: Annoying software: a rogues' gallery

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A miasma of unending complexity

Rupert. Interesting to note that everyone seems to have a comment or opinion either about your post itself or on one of the products mentioned. What is of concern to me and something which I focus on as a HUI designer/ developer is that the disparate software products are, in fact, not totally interoperable. They fight for space within the 'one space' - your desktop. Fundamentally, it would appear that the collection of separate utilities everyone has in their computers will, in time, become a major problem for people to navigate. Hence, the term Information Overload or as I would prefer to describe it, Navigation Overload. I can't say too much here, but I can tell you this: there is a system being developed that I am aware of which will bridge the gap between search and navigation. The simplicity of this system is somewhat striking - even sexy. In fact, it will render the model we currently view here on ZDNet obsolete. Your data, meaning YOUR very own data (and I mean all of it) will be accessible through one, secure single information utility. As with Frank Lloyd Wright's 'mile-high' building, where the removing of waste was his single most difficult obstacle, the navigation of information is one of the final frontiers of computing and the person or people that deliver it en masse will claim a prize of incalculable value.

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