recursion

Dan Hon: Inflection Point. Interesting discussion of where to go with metadata and file history (unlimited undo) now that we have such cheap storage space. Doesn't mention LifeStreams, though! I'm not sure if Dan Hon is recapitulating these ideas or if he read them somewhere else.

Brad DeLong: The Gospel of Metadata. Brad plans on just using Google to search for everything on his hard drive.

The cool thing about what Dan writes about is that most of what he suggests could be collected automatically, and would work with a search engine, not against it. I am convinced that tagging files with metadata is a losing proposition versus content-based search. But passive metadata would add to search without requiring any effort from the user.