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"Yes, documents, as envisioned in the ‘90s are dead."

"But I would want a data-oriented workflow, rather than an application-centric universes, where each application manages its own opaque data silo, or manages some data stored somewhere unknown in the cloud. I wish the concepts of data, data representation, and data storage were clearly delimited and independently manageable. [...] The protocols can even be application-specific protocols, as long as they are open protocols. They don’t even need to be restricted to network I/O. Perhaps it is desirable to run the computation closer to the data that the internet can provide. I mean protocol in the general sense of two systems talking together through whatever means, which could even mean some form of running two services under the same kernel instance, as long as there is a standard way to do this. And then the user can chose what application to use, to display this data managed by some system, and processed by another, through another protocol (or the same protocol). "

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