[woofie]

"I can visualize the worldstream," says Mr. Gelernter, explaining its advantages. "I know what it looks like. I know what my chunk of it looks like. When I focus on my stuff, I get a stream that is a subset of the worldstream. So when I focus the stream, by doing a search on Sam Schwartz"—a hypothetical student—"I do stream subtraction. Everything that isn't related to Schwartz that I'm allowed to see vanishes. And then the stream moves much more slowly. Because Sam Schwartz documents are being added at a much slower rate than all the documents in the world. So now I have a manageable trickle of stuff."

Do I understand this? no

[HiTech RedNeck]

a highfalutin way of saying he focuses on a topic

[Jonty30]

I think he’s basically saying that computing should adapt to your personal way of thinking, not have you adapt to it’s way of thinking.

It would be an extension of you and how you do things. A symbiotic relationship between you and the machine.

[trebb]

Do I understand this? no

Instead of getting Gunwalker data dumps with mostly extraneous info and more info that's not relevant, you would get all relevant data and no irrelevant data - meaning a smaller number of hits to a search over a longer time span instead of a huge dump of "possibles" that takes a long time to filter through.