It seems impossible to think about personal computing without files--everything is a file. Will it allways be like this? Will we still deal with files in 100 years?
Getting rid of the idea of files
Jonathan Brooks
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Elijah Robinson
hell yeah nigger
let's just just store everything in one big pile of plaintext
Tyler Walker
What if you semantically linked correlating parts of that pile of data together?
Lucas Hall
a file at its most abstract is just some data that is separate from other data
we're not gonna move away from that anytime soon
Eli Diaz
A filesystem can already do what you're proposing, it's called a website
Grayson Gomez
With the current hype about AI and all, what if your data was stored in a neural network?
Maybe it is possible for computers to have the notion of a person, similar to our own way of thinking, and that person's contact data and them appearing in a photo are not totally separate files, but interlinked data.
Nicholas Allen
So instead of storing things in files, like person.txt or something, you want a pile of raw data so you can train an AI to pick out relevant data from the pile? What would the smallest unit of information be? Is the pile just a stream of ones and zeroes? You haven't thought this out
Samuel Baker
In other words, object oriented programming, which we already have.
Landon Ortiz
you should just keep trying
im not worried for you since you've already managed to post a thread without a brain
Samuel Turner
CAS (content addressed storage) + plus decentralized digital identity. Yes, file systems are obsolete, we shoud treat data as data, metadata is added for making it computable (understandable for the computer)
Nicholas Gonzalez
Just store data in an acid database and use metadata for making it computable (like the semantic web) if every computer uses an acid database as storage (in reality we should get rid of the memory and storage dichotomy) then we surpass the client-server model too.
Colton Harris
Files are not fundamental to computing. It's just an arbitrary way to store data. Data could be stored in many alternative ways - e.g. in a database.
Hierarchical file systems are one dimensional and very limited.
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Caleb Thomas
We already have Linux
Aaron Torres
It's dicks in my shit. It always has been.
Owen Ward
>Hierarchical file systems are one dimensional and very limited.
Plan 9 exploit this with bind and private namespaces, but the "everything is a file abstraction was really bad even on unix".
Austin Stewart
>what if your data was stored in a neural network?
So you mean store it in a file? Good job user you just went full circle.
Luis Hernandez
"files" are just abstractions anyway.
Jeremiah Rivera
you can remove this idea of files right now, if you really want
Windows NT kernal (the core of every Windows since I think 2000) is essentially a database with billions of records in it. You have no "files", you have database entries that are stored in a physical table, broken into sections we call "sectors" on a hard disk (or whatever the fuck magic SSDs use)
No files, only columns and rows with data in them.
Caleb Phillips
In the future, all your files will be stored in OneDrive and your computer will run a shell of an OS which basically just runs remote desktop.
Ryder Martin
>Will we still deal with files in 100 years?
You say "deal with" as if it's not already a perfect system. We had a problem: we want to store data, and we want to be able to find that data easily. The answer was simple. Data gets put into files. Each file has a unique location. The location name is hierarchical to allow us to put things into logical categories.
Gabriel Taylor
I would rather do away with the concept of the personal computer. Imagine taking the internet to the absolute extreme; and the cloud to a literal one.
The domain, from the Halo universe. A quasi-sentient collection of knowledge obtained from every single member of it's systems for thousands of years. At any moment (given you ask nicely) it can provide you any piece of information from any person at any time, past or present (and with this wealth of knowledge, psuedo-precience becomes a possibility by taking the threads of the past to their logical conclusion)
instead of logging in to your computer, and searching the internet for whatever information has been deemed important enough to be saved somewhere, imagine simply asking a device for x piece of information, and receving it. A literal nueral network of every human being's mind, not connected directly to eachother to avoid mind reading, but instead being collected and soted into truths, opinions, times and dates, places, topics, etc. And having that collated information fed back to each user at the result of a question.
Sound like far fetched, science fiction nonsense? THere is already a device for collecting your every phrase, your every message, in essance your every thought, in your pocket. More and more these devices sit in your home, in your office, in the streets and back alleys. Microphones, cameras, etc. All the information needed for The Domain is already starting to be collected, it just needs an entity to sort it and allow/deny access to it.
Robert Collins
Imagine wanting to suck alphabet cock so much. Memoryholing would look like child's play compared to this.
Also, imagine the leaks.