If we wrote things as objects sending messages we might be able to disregard their remoteness most of the time. The value could be in writing software which wo

If we wrote things as objects sending messages we might be able to disregard their remoteness most of the time. The value could be in writing software which wouldn't need to change much as you changed the way it's getting used radically. For a crappy example, a tool like rsync can talk to a copy of itself over any kind of stream and sync things that are remote so because it has this abstraction, you can rsync over ssh but you're not limited to ssh. If some future stream protocol arises rsync could probably be made to work over it without a rewrite.