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2  Hyperstructure: Computers built around things you care about  Hyperstructure: Computers built around things that you care about
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18  Abstract  Abstract
19  ========  ========
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21  The Next Big Thing, in our opinion, is hyperstructure,  Computers need to help us **organizing our lives**, rather
22  a term we use to *denote* a storage model that allows  than making them more difficult. The "next big thing"
23  different data structures to overlap, but to *connote*  will be a system that allows us to **structure information
24  being used as the basis of an item-based hypermedia system  around items, things that we care about**, such as people, arguments
25  with fluidly interacting *applitudes*.  and ideas, rather than directories and files, and helps
26    us to understand how these items are related.
27  We present the fundamental principles of hyperstructure,  
28  discuss the different proposed implementations (zzStructure  We present a design for a computing environment
29  and RDF -based) and our own implementation, Fenfire,  built around this notion, using a *hyperstructure*,
30  with several user interface innovations.  a user-visible data structure for relating items
31  We also relate the concepts of hyperstructure to the hypertext  to each other in different contexts.
32  literature.  We also discuss Fenfire, our implementation-in-progress,
33    which XXX{buoys and buoy+loom UI}.
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134  The item we are currently looking at  The item we are currently looking at
135  is shown in the middle, items related to it are shown  is shown in the middle, items related to it are shown
136  around it (see [#fig1note]_). Items further away  around it [#fig1note]_. Items further away
137  fade into the background. Clicking  fade into the background. Clicking
138  on a far-away item will bring it to the center.  on a far-away item will bring it to the center.
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