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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Useful overview of the emergent tech! Thanks for sharing. I still fear The Cloud.
from TRON: “the computers will start to think and we’ll stop doing it”