About 10 years ago, a prominent tech executive confidently informed me that computer files would become obsolete . The exec was Bret Taylor, who at the time was building a Microsoft Word alternative called Quip. He previously oversaw the birth of Google Maps and served as Facebook’s CTO, and later became the co CEO of Salesforce. Taylor argued that Quip and other online first services like Google Docs, Netflix, and Spotify were making file management unnecessary, and that conventional f
