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| Gelernter Blames Enron Collapse On Hierarchical File Systems |
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posted by Editor on Thursday February 21, @11:38AM
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David Gelernter is one of the most vocal critics of the hierarchical method of storing data. In recent presentations, he has referred to the traditional file/folder desktop metaphor as virtual tupperware, in which electronic documents are scattered in all sorts of little containers all over the place. According to this article in USA Today, Gelernter will claim in his keynote speech today at Internet World Wireless East 2002 that this system helped Enron conceal the "big picture" of its illicit financial activities by letting it store relevant information in thousands of different locations. The need for the ability to maintain a global view of information infrastructures is a consistent theme in Gelernter's ideas. In his 1991 book Mirror Worlds, he explored the concept of a topview, a kind of birds-eye view of all the data in the world, into which you can drill down as needed.
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