I'm just fascinated by how this term "cloud-bricked" is probably understood by everyone today, not techie people, everyone or rapidly approaching everyone, probably understands the essential properties and concept like any other basic vocabulary word, simply because this stuff has permeated all levels of everyday life like electricity has before that.

The term, and this idea about how ordinary a concept like that is now, made me think just now that modern English up to about 1990 (widespread adoption of the internet) may eventually become a new Old English.

There will be so many terms that have such different meanings and usage before and after a certain time, that they're almost different languages. And we're kind of in the middle of the transition in real time right now.