In other words, the object storage device is a peer of the computer rather than a peripheral. It happens to be storage centric computer as opposed to computer centric. We can expect to see object storage devices that have the ability to do things to the data that exceed simple data management. For instance, if you are an object storage device and you are getting requests for objects, we can determine which objects require real time response and which don't. This allows you to prioritize and allocate bandwidth based on the object's real time attributes.
Streams can then come ahead of normal data requests.
Or when I read it back off I need to apply this algorithm to the data. The point is that it's definable and it's dynamic. Like a fish that has to be fed on occasion, an object can be a program that's continuously executing. If I go away for a week I can depend on my 11 year old to feed the fish. If I put an object out on my storage device I don't have to come back every 5 minutes and go update that object.