Imagine a world where people would find information that other people wrote.

imagine a world where people would find information they wrote themselves five months ago.

Imagine a world where the word "usability" means more than the word "disportendbonnectnutaliates".

Imagine a world where people call their e-mails "e-mails" or "messages" like the rest of the world and not "memos".

Imagine a world where bits would be indivisible units and negative bits would not exist.

Imagine a world where people could switch to a different PC and their bookmarks and address book would still be there.

Imagine a world where people wouldn't have to care where their e-mails are located, what an archive is, or what the hell a replication policy is.

Imagine a world where people who receive e-mail from you would be able to make immediate sense of a forwarded e-mail.

Imagine a world where people could work on something else while their computer is busy working.

Imagine a world where people wouldn't have to think about the duration of their calendar entries before they open the window to enter the data.

Imagine a world where, if someone told their system once that their office is in Taiwan, it wouldn't constantly try to access data in the USA or Switzerland when it's available at a much higher speed locally.

Imagine a world where 0% doesn't mean 3/4 full.

Imagine a world where you could choose whether your e-mail client lets other people know if and when you read their message by ticking a checkbox instead of installing a highly complex script.

Imagine a world where there would be a fair choice for document management systems with some actual competition and where CIOs wouldn't have to say with a shrug of their shoulders: "Sorry, we have to stick with the system we chose twenty years ago; we can't switch because there's no way to import and export data."

That world has a name. It's the world without Lotus Notes.