[zymhan]

First of all, you can just tunnel whatever storage protocol over HTTPS if needed. The point of the quote is that we could be using Operating Systems that abstract away the various kinds of storage available so that you can use whatever combination of options work for you.

It's like if everyone was using Linux and paid for plans from for example a cloud storage provider, but was able to reliably and automatically mount their storage like any other network share.

With open technology and widespread fast internet, it's really not that hard to accomplish. We've already got the former. Now we just need a lot more of the latter.