The power of this model is immense. All entities and resources are locatable through the global distributed resource directory. The schemas of everyone's data are expressed in XML and can be discovered through the resource directory. An outside observer of e-Space might be frightened by the apparent complexity of millions of entities and resources working together in ad hoc ensembles. The applications of e-Space are as much fun to dream up as they are to use.
Active environments is one such example.
In e-Space, there are sensors and other triggered inputs that furnish data to anyone interested. Well, they're still there. We're not going to replace them, we'll just augment them with a better front end that makes them more friendly to the rest of the electronic community. But, in addition to the old-style transaction systems, there's a new style of interaction that requires varying amounts of the old rules for consistency and isolation. We believe that e-Space is a breakthrough concept that will allow incredibly complex systems to be build using extremely simple technology.