Las aplicaciones que instalamos y manejamos desde nuestros teléfonos están modificando nuestra forma de entender el concepto «archivo». Ese conjunto ordenado de documentos tienen nombres y definiciones más precisas que nos permiten dar mayor valor a su existencia y a su almacenamiento.
Dustin Curtis lo explicaba brevemente en The death of files, uno de esos post que deberíamos guardar para volver a abrirlo dentro de unos años y observar su sentido práctico.
This is a new model for organizing things on computers, but it actually much more closely emulates the way people do things in the real world. When you want to eat, you go to the refrigerator. When you want to listen to music, you go to your stereo system. Completing these actions just requires knowing the locations of the things you want to use. If you want to look at photos in the real world, everything you might want to accomplish is in a single place: in the album on the bookshelf. The photos themselves are even inside the album.
Because most computer operating systems don’t organize things this way…