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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