Doesn’t the existing Windows file management interface resemble the Hierarchical bureaucratisation Maximilian Weber outlined in 1919 or something silly, as efficient but not particularly attractive.

Maybe a more fluid and realistic system could even do something positive for the thinking in some of the corporate dinosaurs. You know, the ones that idolize desks, have revolving door HR circuses, and somehow seem to apparently proftably endure the tides of change, even if only by the momentum of the forests of dead trees, desecrated and filed in their legions of ugly, ugly wall adourning cabinets that clash with absolutely everything, even the exposed services look – and THAT is sad.

Andrew mentioned something to the effect of the new windows being SQL-ish. Now I am not a techy, I don’t now more about Linux than that it keeps my site afloat, but to my naïve ear the essence of that idea makes a lot of sense. Just the benefits of managing files as tagged data and information elements, in other words more object oriented could, I think do wonders for collaborative, and especially networked collaborative work situations. It is of course also just a hop-skip-jump into virtually seamlessly interfacing this with online data feeds from people and other information sources, be it Holywood or your local open source hacktivist.

I think I’m seeing Sci-Fi here, with IPv6 coming into fuller play, supporting the potential to have a sh**-***d of unique addresses, 340 undecillion (655368 ? 3.4 × 1038) little nodes of identity to be pedantic and frightfully lucid! – this makes it feasible to set ‘information free’, even if only into new echelons of exponential complexity and evanescent intricacy. I can’t help but wonder how the patent and proprietary lawyers will feel about this… someone could even have an unexpected field day trying to figure out how to serve summonses on distributed indiscrete computational inteligenses. Now there’s a concept for a feature-length pseudo docy!

Looking over Windows Vista (alias Win 6.0, Longhorn) it seems those lawyers still have a bit of time to dig some trenches, and maybe for helpdesk operators to go and change their soft- I mean underwear.

Meanwhile it’s time I go count some retiary sheep.