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CIO (Oct 10, 2002) published an interview with David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale University and a cofounder and chief technologist at Mirror Worlds Technologies Inc. Gelernter and his team have developed a knowledge management software program intended to revolutionize how personal computers save and display information.

The goal: to present all information -- word-processing documents, e-mail, pictures, music, everything -- as a stream of time-ordered files that can be reorganized instantly into substreams by topic.

Gelernter says "If I'm researching some topic and I come up with 147 isolated tidbits or news stories, I have a bag of random information. But if I take those 147 bits of information and arrange them into a big picture so I understand that first this happened and then that happened and this led to this and then this happened in consequence and in the future we're expecting that, if I arrange those 147 bits and pieces into a narrative or a story that gives me some context, some feel for the big picture, then I've graduated to knowledge."

Here is full story from cioinsight.com.