"There is no “Cloud”: There are only Other People’s Hard Drives."

-- http://www.loper-os.org/?p=44

Having no local state is a wonderful vision. I see why that makes you excited, but "the cloud" is the death of programmatic computing.

What we should move towards is personal servers, either physical machines or (for 98% of the population) some kind of "gmail for servers" like https://sandstorm.io/.