A lifetime of objects
How can digital objects start to behave better?
We live in a world of digital objects that exist over time. But these objects exist in disjoint data repositories and the manual labor required to manage them is unduly high. As well in general, the dimension of time is somewhat ignored by most applications. Emails sent out are not clearly visible as waiting for responses. Things have no beginning nor end, dependencies are not clearly shown. The implications of something such as a recurring bill do not affect a bottom line in a clear way. It is non trivial to report small transactions such as filling up the car with gas, or meeting a new client, or thinking of a new idea, to a centralized knowledge management store.
How can these objects begin to have a life of their own? To move around more easily? To be orderable and directable? To be manipulable by a variety of tools? To embody their own permissions and rights?
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