Recently took a tour of my old campus

Everyone has a Macbook and they're all writing Javascript. Something happened around 2006-2010 (facebook + iphone) that made every normie get into software. I predict a massive collapse of the current tech bubble once these kids graduate, if it already isn't underway. Like all great disasters, in its wake order will be restored. Recall how GREAT it was after the 1999 dotcom crash.

By 2020, the Ruby coffeeshop Macbook crowd will once again be rightfully laughed at. There will be a return to the old ways of the software industry—that is, business being the primary users of software and not individuals. Less ``cloud'' and more WinForms. Less ``ajax'' and more HTML. Less ``scripting'' and more programming.

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Thank you, our resident buzzword and bad analogy expert. Under the old mainframe computing model, user accounts were merely todays VPS.

But cloud, in the bussiness buzzword sense, is much more than that - more sinister. It means user forfeiting all control over input data to the cloud provider, whereas mainframes is just renting computing resources, but not the software contained therein.

Cloud is a form of DRM - the only way to avoid software being cloned/pirated is to simply deny direct access to it. No wonder computing market oligopolies gravitate so strongly towards it.

tl;dr: Cloud is basically a jewish scheme, but with electrons, instead of money.