updated idea formulation

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-Idea is to design all encompassing, flexible and powerful virtual
-environment where I can live in and very efficiently do all my
-computing tasks enjoyably and with playful ease.
+Goal is, so called bicycle for the mind.
+
+A tool, that provides powerful, easy to use computing environment for
+solving wide range of problems.
 
 [[id:c19c5a3b-dfb0-4f7f-961c-a387b925669f][See extensible, programmable computing environment examples]]. In each
 case you can install or develop plugins/extensions for every purpose
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 I would like to create better general purpose environment with the
 following properties:
 
-+ Makes lots of complex data intuitive to:
-  - explore, understand
-  - manipulate and compute on
++ Makes data and insights easy to discover, understand and
+  manipulate/transform.
+
++ Things are visual, realtime with immediate feedback.
 
-+ Extensively relying on:
-  - [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/][Realtime 3D graphics]] with immediate feedback loop.
++ 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
 
-+ [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/][Flexible and distributed computation and data storage]].
+
++ 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
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 + [[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]]. Emacs
-  provides text buffers that can be used to build GUI.
+  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,