Tim Berners-Lee loves to wax poetic on the evolution of our mental model of what's important and what we consider to be the nodes in the computing graph:
TCP/IP: "It's not the wires, it's the computers!"
HTTP/HTML: "It's not the computers, it's the documents!"
Semantic Web (/Fathom): "It's not the documents, it's the things that they are about!"
I look forward to the day when the idea of discrete, atomic documents is finally abstracted away in the same manner that we abstracted away the physical machines that host them.
TCP/IP: "It's not the wires, it's the computers!"
HTTP/HTML: "It's not the computers, it's the documents!"
Semantic Web (/Fathom): "It's not the documents, it's the things that they are about!"
https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Abstractions.html
I look forward to the day when the idea of discrete, atomic documents is finally abstracted away in the same manner that we abstracted away the physical machines that host them.