David Gelernter earned his futurist credentials with his 1991 book "Mirror Worlds" that foresaw many elements of the contemporary Web. The Yale computer science professor is now trying to apply his foresight to the business world with software that changes the way computers present information. He believes users will embrace Mirror Worlds Technologies Inc.'s cross-platform Scopeware that arranges files by time rather than name. It copies files on a network and a user's hard drive, and the Windows NT or 2000 server, behind a company's firewall, extracts and indexes the documents' content for presentation on a browser-based client. Clients will run on PCs, Macs, Unix workstations, Palm and Windows CE devices, WAP-enabled phones, and BlackBerry pagers.

Gelernter says, "I don't think anybody doubts the file system and the desktop are dead."

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