Death to the file, long live the URL

Part of an Ars Technica review of Google's new operating system.
Longtime Ars readers may be familiar with my periodic rants about the increasing disutility of the "volume/directory/file" metaphor for modern networked machines. Saving files, copying them, syncing them--this is all pointless clerical work that I want my computer to do for me.
Bravo.

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from TRON: "the computers will start to think and we'll stop doing it"

Useful overview of the emergent tech! Thanks for sharing. I still fear The Cloud.

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Sat 12:34 Mike Arnzen: Useful overview of the emergent tech! Thanks for sharing. I still fear The Cloud.... (on Death to the file, long live the URL)

Sat 3:29 Lluc: from TRON: "the computers will start to think and we'll stop doing it"... (on Death to the file, long live the URL)

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