Base idea: Instead of building apps work as data silos, consider the data as information substrates/digital matter and build tools that work on them.
A world without Apps
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[ The open data model :paper: ]
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Base idea: Instead of building apps work as data silos, consider the data as information substrates/digital matter and build tools that work on them.
Start
In the present we have a lot of apps, many to do the same kind of things, but with different featuresets or access to different data. Cannot get it all together.
We got to ubiquitous computing but also into ubiquitous complexity
Issues
Information silos
Centralization
Walled gardens - In addition of their inherent problems, we have to get used to each of their idiosyncrasies.
In contrast with
[ 05:12 ] 1st GUI, Xerox's (Star?) didn't had apps, it had document.
Email: Federated and open
Not locked into a silo
Can be accessed by any app
Files: Especially plaintext
Conter-examples
Closed formats
In contrast with
(Centralized?) Cloud storage
[ 10:33 ] Spreadsheets
How to fix it?
Let user's appropriate the digital
Get inspiration from physical world. Build a "<<<digital matter>>>" with a "digital" version of "physic laws"
[ 11:06 ] Build interfaces based on <<<tools>>>: [ Instrumental Interfaces ]
Tools can be used different applications (can go from one application/context to another)
Consider data as information <<<substrates>>> on which the tools operate
For example
Spreadsheet
Images & layers
Experiments
Webstrates - 2015
Codestrates - 2017
Videostrates - 2019
Key notions
Tools
On jailbroken iOS
Time
[ 22:02 ]
On the Q&A session one attendee mentions that [ Cids?-substrate ] allows to hook in existing iOS apps.
With this, some apps on the jailbroken stores work as tools, modifying and extending their parent apps. (Like, building extensions for them?)