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Few of my observations from this announcement: In Google's vision of the future, your computer is a thin client. There is no My Documents folder, as everything
by karpathy 14y ago
Few of my observations from this announcement:
In Google's vision of the future, your computer is a thin client. There is no My Documents folder, as everything personal lives on gdrive. The Chrome app store becomes the new operating system. Apps will have access to your files, they will be able to search them, open them, and operate on them. You will never see the "Open file" dialog box again.
In this world, the concept of a file on your local computer in some folder does not exist. Your stuff is simply available to you from the cloud from whatever computer. The abstraction or concept of a "file" or "folder" will fade. Our children will not know what these words mean. They will see their pictures in a web interface with location and time overlayed, completely oblivious to the fact that it happens to be stored as a .jpg file somewhere on google servers and an associated .txt file that contains some meta data about it.
We are finally moving beyond (arbitrary) abstractions from mid 1900's. I like this future.
- ericd 14y agoI don't, because I fairly frequently don't have internet or cell access. Hopefully this will spur telecom companies to get their asses in gear, but I'm not optimistic, and that sounds like a supremely frustrating future of trying to get reception.
- nikcub 14y agoThis has been the theme for years. It is the argument that killed the original Google Drive and why Google are so late to the party. What they didn't realize is that you need a drive product in order to migrate users from the old desktop files paradigm to the new web services. I see Google Drive, SkyDrive and Dropbox as nothing more than a temporary bridge between the old world and the new world. I am already using webapps and web files for ~90% of my work, there is just a few little things that I still do in the desktop world, such as image editing. The opportunity here for entrepreneurs is to look at old file and app usage and work out where the gaps are in good online services. I wouldn't worry too much about providing the actual storage, since that is now a race to the bottom, and providing the operating system or app aggregator is also now a free business, the good business will all be in the web based apps.
- gaius 14y agoYou are forgetting: files and folders aren't computing concepts. They were carried over into computing from physical things that people had found useful for - literally - hundreds of years. You have a group of related things that you would like to associate with each other and operate on as a single thing - what would you call this? Why not a "folder"?