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Not quite; my parents both organize pictures into folders very well and organize them by date and tag them with metadata. They don't do the same for documents,
by kunai 13y ago
Not quite; my parents both organize pictures into folders very well and organize them by date and tag them with metadata. They don't do the same for documents, but because every document of theirs tends to be unique, there really isn't any need to.
Also note that these are the same parents who haven't the slightest idea of what a kernel is.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoHowever, I bet your parents know what filing cabinets and floppy disks are, while your kids most definitely do (or will) not! Pictures and music were also some of the first content classes to be de-filed [1] with apps like iTunes and iPhoto (the file hierarchy is still there, its just hidden from most users). I think this is one of those rare cases where the future is just staring us right in the face, like when Apple got rid of the floppy disk on the imac, or when CD ROM similarly went away. It doesn't mean file systems die right away, but they will become invisible to most users in one or fewer generations. [1] A funny punny