Brad Ovenell-Carter

These file sync.and.share solutions form the bedrock on which a new computing paradigm has emerged: the distributed core model. As a result, individuals, workgroups, and companies can operate with a cloud-based distributed file …

ributed file s…rive, and Google Drive have exploded. We really need to think of file sync-and-share apps as fixing a flaw in our operating systems, notably Mac OS X and Windows. They are still configured as if there is no Internet, and as if we don’t have multiple computing devices. We are using these applications not really as a file sharing tool, but as an a distributed file sys…

Increasingly, the marginalia surrounding a doc — comments made internal to the doc, messages and tasks related to a doc, and so on — are as important to the system of record as the doc contents are. The context holds as much or more information as the ‘content’.