After the Page
The article discusses the transition from the page as the primary unit of software to a new paradigm centered around sessions. This shift reflects a broader change in human-machine interaction, moving from command lines and graphical interfaces to conversational interfaces. The implications of this transition will significantly influence who controls user data and experiences in the future.
- ▪The page has been the organizing unit of software for thirty years.
- ▪Conversational software is emerging, focusing on sessions that remember user context.
- ▪The next major conflict in software will revolve around control of user sessions.
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Thesis After the Page Rey Peralta 27 Apr 2026 — 27 min read Share Notes on the end of one era and the shape of the nextBy Rey Peralta and ClaudeAbout this essayFor thirty years, the page has been the organizing unit of software: addressable, linkable, shareable, and forgetful by default. Conversational software is being built around something different: the session, a continuous context that remembers, accumulates, and holds the thread on the user’s behalf. This essay traces why that shift is happening, what the page got right, and why the choices being made now about session infrastructure will shape whether the next era of software belongs to users or to the platforms hosting them.So what The next fight over software will not be about pages versus chat; it will be about who controls the…
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