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Selling a vision of the future beyond folders

An inventor has produced a set of computing tools to help information organize itself in readily understood ways rather than through the cumbersome processes of most computers

By John Schwartz  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK

He craves success for Scopeware, and "the inevitable clarifying intensity that follows coming to work one morning and almost dying DOES have something to do with it."

Despite everything, Gelernter wrote, he is one of the fortunate ones. "I can't claim that everything's turned out exactly as I'd hoped; far from it."

Still, "as Fred Astaire tells Joan Leslie in The Sky's the Limit, I couldn't be luckier than I am tonight."'

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