++ Makes data and insights easy to discover, understand and
+ manipulate/transform.
+
++ Things are visual, realtime with immediate feedback.
+
++ Extensively utilizes [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/][realtime 3D graphics]] and capabilities of human
+ visual perception.
+
+ #+BEGIN_QUOTE
+ “Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind”
+ Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
+ #+END_QUOTE
+
+
++ Behind the scenes, computations are done primarily in[[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/][ on versioned
+ data in distributed, scalable, frexible computation engine]].
+
++ Cross device:
+ + Easily switch and/or combine computers to work seamlessly on any
+ tasks.
+
+ + User interface, data, software, running proceses and available
+ computing power is not contained or limited by boundaries of any
+ single device.
+
+** Extensible, programmable computing environment examples
+ :PROPERTIES:
+ :ID: c19c5a3b-dfb0-4f7f-961c-a387b925669f
+ :END:
++ [[https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/04/27/one-program-to-rule-them-all/][GNU Emacs]] - At the heart, Emacs is text editor on top of Lisp
+ runtime. Data storage and computation can be done in [[https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html][Lisp]]. Domain
+ specific languages to fit particular problem could be developed as
+ needed and Emacs extended to support those languages. Emacs provides
+ text buffers that can be used to build user interfaces.
+
++ [[https://www.eclipse.org/ide/][Eclipse IDE]] - In essence [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSGi][OSGi]] platform with a text
+ editor. Computation done in java. Eclipse provides integration,
+ runtime and GUI platform.
+
++ [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Notes][IBM Notes/Domino]] - Custom database engine, software development
+ platform, GUI editor, computation can be done in Java and
+ LotusScript.
+
++ [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABAP][SAP ABAP]] - Custom database engine, runtime, GUI platform,
+ development environment and programming language.