And the wheel turns: http://www.retrologic.com/jargon/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.html http://www.retrologic.com/jargon/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.ht... The wheel

And the wheel turns: http://www.retrologic.com/jargon/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.html http://www.retrologic.com/jargon/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.ht... The wheel of reincarnation I'm referring to in this case is the cycling between a mainframe/thin-client architecture and a PC-based distributed architecture. In ye olde days it was mainframes and dumb terminals. Then it was PCs and LANs/the Internet. Then it was web browsers and tablets (dumb terminal 2.0) and The Cloud (mainframe 2.0). Now the wheel is turning once again... The cloud is great as long as I don't care who owns my data, want to pay constantly for hosting it (or put up with arbitrary and changeable limits), have no privacy, lose my data when a startup goes out of business, etc.