Great interview. Despite my lackluster response to Twine, it sounds like Spivack is a deep deep thinker in this space. Highlights from this interview:
- Everything is moving to cloud
- Hosted version will not be just a cloud-based rehash of desktop methaphor
- "People don't want to manage all their information on the Web in the same interface they use to manage data and apps on their local PC. The Web is an entirely different medium than the desktop and it requires a new kind of interface."
- Desktop will no longer exist - already browser is taking it over - there isn't any rason to have a desktop outside of the browser
- Scarcest resource will shift from being bandwidth & storage to attention. [this reminds me of this chris anderson piece wait, not that one, although that looks good. This one]
- Our tools will become attention management tools.
- With Google, filing things becomes a skill of the past. We will need filtering talent.
- "The social dimension of our lives is becoming perhaps our most important source of information."
- "Forget about shared folders -- that is an outmoded paradigm. Instead, the new metaphor will be interactive shared spaces..They will be permission-based environments where one or many contributors can meet, interact synchronously or asynchronously, to work on information and other tasks together."
- Desktop of future will be smart - it will respond to you and your behavior
- "The Webtop is going to learn and help you to be more productive. As you use it, it's going to adjust to your interests, relationships, current activities, information and preferences. It will adaptively self-organize to help you focus your attention on what is most important to whatever context you are in."
- It will be time and location sensitive
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