While the solution going forward is most likely to go back to dumb terminals (thin clients, if you prefer) I think just putting it in "the cloud" as it stands t

While the solution going forward is most likely to go back to dumb terminals (thin clients, if you prefer) I think just putting it in "the cloud" as it stands today is not the solution. Granted, it's not very clear what they are offering, but it does appear to be a gated service (think Dropbox) rather than an open technology (think HTTP). It just doesn't seem to solve problems any better than what's already out there, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Personally, what I'd like to see is mainstream software bundled with https://ipfs.io/ https://ipfs.io/ technology. If content could be served via a DHT plus all the extra things IPFS offers, we'll be a lot closer to a world where content doesn't get lost. At that point I'd gladly pay a company to store my personal files (by simply giving them a list of hashes which resolve to my computer so they can download them), and trust that it's safe because they were encrypted on my end and the company is just ensuring that the content can be redownloaded should my computer explode. On a sidenote, IPFS would also solve a lot of problems with public data, where everything can be reliably synced (and even updated with IPNS) for people with no persistent access to the Internet (and people on space stations or the Moon or Mars, should we ever put bases on them).