When everything was &quot;moving to the cloud&quot; a few years ago (around when Jason wrote this), I started to have similar feelings. It all felt like something marketers were over-hyping. &quot;Your computer in the cloud&quot; (ever had a shell account that was your main system? This isn&#x27;t new), &quot;your games in the cloud! Ever played Nethack using that shell account?<p>I guess the only &#x27;new&#x27; thing that I saw was the scaling capabilities based on capacity, but we&#x27;ve had time-sharing (albeit, slightly different) for many years.