"There is an urban legend that ..." is usually self-fulfilling.
Schlagwort: Wahrheit
De geur van brood en honing.
Want je kunt niets zeker weten en alles gaat voorbij
Real Remix.
"It's hard to explain, but, for me, just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatver you call it ..."
"A speelycaptor."
"... at something doesn't collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all their senses, mix it round in their head, and make it over into words."
Neal Stephenson: Anathem
Not even people, usually.
There is no cloud, just other people's computers.
Seeing Clouds.
In a sense the switch from software running on premise servers to Software as a Service running in a cloud somewhere resembles the switch from Word Perfect to Word.