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At Fluidinfo, we're aiming to bring about a fundamental change in how people work with information. We're designing and building a distributed storage architecture for a new representation of information, and creating a variety of applications that will use the underlying architecture.

Later in GLUT, Wright touches on how the card catalog of libraries became separated from the main library content, the actual books. Libraries became so big and accumulated so many volumes that it was no longer feasible to store the metadata for each volume with the volume. So that information was collected and stored elsewhere. This is important because the computational world we all inhabit has similarly been shaped by resource constraints. In our case the original constraints are long gone, but we continue to live in their shadow.