His most recent work is on the Jini distributed computing technology for networking computer devices using Java. Not only would the pages in the web metaphor be extensible, but the metaphors themselves would also be extensible. The most important metaphor we intended to add to the web would be maps for navigation. Since that time the Internet has grown wildly. People spend a lot of time wandering around the web.
Most Internet users seem to wander and too often, they get lost.
Remembering URLs is difficult and unforgiving and accumulating bookmarks provides small comfort to most people. But while the web has grown enormously in the past five years, most people on the Internet still wander around without the benefit of a good map. The time has come for more use of maps in the Internet. In 1994 I bought and perused many books about mapmaking. Maps have a wonderful history, and my reading led me to think a lot about how maps need not correspond to physical space.