The Freestyle System

The increase in speed, memory, and display characteristics of personal computers creates a new opportunity to support a larger set of fundamental types of human communication. In order to communicate with groups of people in the past, we have used standard alphabets that are efficiently reproduced using typing, printing, word processing, and copiers. People have shared these typed messages across distance using sophisticated means of transporting both paper and electronic mail. While we have grown to accept our dependence on the written word to reach large numbers of people quickly, we have also sought ways to use technology to capture more fundamental types of human communication.