Others have reframing computing. Their work is cited to defend unexpected aspets of Folk Memory.
Related Work
Tom Ray’s Digital Preserve is about as biological of a network as one can imagine. If my use of statistical properties seems far fetched, then read what Tom is doing. archive 
Chip Morningstar’s company, Electric Communities, has developed Global Communication Protocols which support secure, peer to peer networking. Chip’s game, Habitat, is the sort I imagine deploying on folk memory. wikipedia
Jim Waldo and others at Sun are building a layer on RMI called JavaSpaces which offers a narrow interface through which applications pass objects. Their middleware need not understand the application or the interfaces it might use. There are linkages to security and transactions. archive
Cache-Only Memory Architectures (COMA) are the latest refinement of Attraction Memory, first proposed in a rather complicated hierarchical and hardware assisted form. Saulsbury, et.al. describe how to use standard MMUs to gain much of the same effect. archive