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Boris
@bmann.ca

Lots of great phrases in here by @orionreed.com as he traces the portable file separate from apps, and describes the path to proprietary formats, to internalization, and finally how cloud affordances can't be exported and represented as a file.

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Orion Reed@orionreed.com

Wrote a mini-essay, "Digital Topology & Economic Power", on how the file went from a site of user agency to one of enclosure — through proprietary formats, data internalization, then the cloud. Each step bundling real gains with a quiet transfer of power. www.orionreed.com/posts/app-fi...

orionreed.comDigital Topology & Economic PowerThe autonomous file, once the basic unit of user agency in personal computing, was first hollowed out through proprietary formats and data internalization, then abolished entirely by cloud platforms, ...

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