Another edit, for clarity:
"An interactive tool for discussion and *deliberation*
that records decisions and their rationales in a way
that allows the knowledge gained in the process to be
applied to future projects."
* "deliberation" was chosen to imply focused discussion,
bent on achieving resolution for some issue or issues.
Note:
The short "elevator version"* I use is:
"A tool to augment human intelligence."
* The "elevator version" is the synopsis you give to
say, a venture cap, when you happen to find yourself
on the same elevator. If the response is "how do you
do that?", showing mild interest, it's an invitation
to move into the sentence-level version, then the
paragraph-level version, etc.
The paragraph:
Combine the simplicity and ease of use of an email
system with the expressive power of Web documents.
In essence, remove the barrier between email and
documents, so you can comment on or even edit a
document as easily as sending a message. While doing
that, make it possible to categorize paragraphs
(i.e. "messages") in order to carry on a well-
organized discourse. Preliminary categories include
"question", "alternative", "argument for", "argument
against", and "endorsement". Categories like those
have been found to be helpful in mediated discussion
systems. We intend to put that thinking into software,
so remote collaborators can carry on the same kind of
highly reasoned discussions online.
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