This guy is pulling "facts" out of thin air left and right. The average person doesn't trust computers, automobile mechanics or lawyers Hello? Statistics? Dat

This guy is pulling "facts" out of thin air left and right. The average person doesn't trust computers, automobile mechanics or lawyers Hello? Statistics? Data? Evidence? I guess those are obsolete too now that we have the cloud. You see Dare, unlike with automobile mechanics, people have an alternative with things like storage. They have plenty of easily available storage right on their computer. Also, people don't trust mechanics with charging a fair price. To apply the mechanics analogy to clouds, it would be like a mechanic that goes out of business and takes your car with him, never to return again. Given the massive adoption of the Web from search engines and e-commerce sites to Web-based email and social networking services, it is clear that the average computer person trusts the cloud enough to part with their personal information and their money. Search engines have nothing to do with giving up personal information. Web-based email has been successful because people associate email is very much associated with the web (think of all the sites that need to email you in some way). In what sense are social networks cloud-like? the average computer user doesn't have a data backup strategy than it is likely to occur if their information is stored on some Web company's servers Another unjustified claim. Giving a personal anecdote is not proof. Articles like these make me more and more confused about what the cloud really is. Is it just about storing information online? In that case, this entire phenomenon is hyped up several degrees more than "web 2.0" and should be thought of as nothing more than marketing-speak. Storing information online is nothing to be excited about, how sexy does "cloud" sound when you realize it just means some data is saved on a network of servers somewhere.