[EricBurnett]

In addition to the aging paradigms of local storage and the perfect/gone dichotomy of in-memory storage of active items, which I definitely agree should go away, we should also prepare for the breakdown of the "local compute" paradigm that underpins it. Discussed in part 2 of http://www.thelowlyprogrammer.com/2021/04/the-rise-of-datace... (note: self link), I'll summarize as _"expect most compute power you use for anything non-trivial to end up being remote"_. The 'fragment' based model discussed in the parent article fits well with this, with the idea that a fragment is not bound to the local computer in either production or consumption, but just a handle to something sufficiently durable for the purpose.