Aha, I love this kind of speculation!
I don't think we should look for folder tree travelling enhancements, though.
Apple has built Spotlight and it doesn't look like it's just a search engine; it's an OS layer which enables developers to approach files in many different ways.
It enables Apple to live up to their standards when it comes to hiding the technical side of things (archiving, in this case).
I do see this 'darkened-screen' interface happening, but I think that it would rather be used for editing tags and other properties belonging to (multiple) files/folders, like editing mp3 tags in iTunes.
I think in general, Finder should become much like iTunes and iPhoto.
Remains the question how in that case Finder's "Library" will be organized...
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