Do you want to get rid of windows or 'applications'? One problem with current systems, and even more so with mobile, is that it is app-centric, and your data i

Do you want to get rid of windows or 'applications'? One problem with current systems, and even more so with mobile, is that it is app-centric, and your data is locked into apps, rather than being something you can manipulate directly and independently. I had a similar idea in the 90s/2000s which I called 'data-centric' (which now means something different, in gamedev). The idea was that instead of a world of apps, which contained the data items you cared about (emails, documents, etc), or even files, that were tied to applications, you'd have more granular data items and collections of items, and ways to organise and present them. And then functions that operate on different types of data item, or collections thereof. An 'application' would be just a collection of functions, and completely customizable by just adding new functions or removing ones you didn't like, at least at the UI level. There have been a number of projects roughly related to this idea I think, but things like OLE don't count IMHO. That was less like 'object' embedding , and more 'entire app embedding', and in any case 'embedding' is not really the point. None of these projects have succeeded, even though I think the idea still has merit. I can/could envisage many problems, eg data type classification/standards, incompatibility, standards bloat, etc, but the latest AI techniques might be a way to work through some of those issues.