This differs from the current situation in which organizational problems that are found in system design specs are probably not relayed back to the originating organization. Information development and maintenance becomes a universal responsibility. Removing file structures would eliminate the problem of understanding among naive users. Having a highly mutable object structure, changes in field composition do not effect other objects. Today, changes in object structures cause whole applications to be recompiled.
Information has more dimensionality.
In other words, information content is not restricted to that which is visual on the printed page, but also to all the objects which comprise the knowledge behind it. So, the printed format is just a particular view onto the complex of objects which make up the true structure behind it. By providing objects to the end user, they may readily combine these objects to complete tasks that under application oriented systems would not be allowed, or would have to cause a software maintenance cycle to be incurred. As We May Think . Atlantic Monthly, Vol.