What Distributed Computing Got Wrong: The Category Mistake That Turned Design Choices into Laws of Nature

What Distributed Computing Got Wrong: The Category Mistake That Turned Design Choices into Laws of Nature

• Distributed computing’s classic impossibility theorems misinterpret physical limits. • They stem from treating Forward‑In‑Time‑Only (FITO) flow as a law of nature. • FITO is a hi

Why iCloud Fails: The Category Mistake of Cloud Synchronization

Why iCloud Fails: The Category Mistake of Cloud Synchronization

• iCloud Drive offers a filesystem view but implements synchronization that violates POSIX semantics. • The core issue is a Category Mistake: applying Forward‑In‑Time‑Only assumpti