I wanted to post this to Slashdot in response to a comment complaining 
about NFS, but they disabled anonymous posting.
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Dude, all this existed decades ago in plan9. Nothing existed "in" your 
computer per-se--programs could run anywhere, on any machine, at any 
time; it was a fundamental unit of a process (read into 9p protocol). 
Everything can be as distributed as you want.

And way before that, was Smalltalk, where everything is an object, 
there aren't "files" because the OS will be anything you want. One big 
image and virtual machine, with real objects all the way down.

Before Smalltalk was LISP, and it solidified logic, through one little 
cons cell, into a perfect crystal representation abstract thought.

If everyone just used computers in ways of liberation (by learning how 
to control logic, and transcribe thought processes), we wouldn't be in 
this mess. Unfortunately, most computer users (more than 99.999%) don't 
give a damn about taste, or liberty of computation.

In-practice, too much is invested in the old system (Linux, java, 
python, "files") to do anything cool or "next-generation" (ha! the 
further back in history one goes, it grows more advanced). So unless 
you are willing to participate in a rebellion against the 
establishment, gtfo because you have nothing to complain about. You 
can't eat your cake and have it, too.