The Cloud is a Big Deal

It is changing our world, in some fundamental ways, that most people are not aware of, because this is happening in a virtual world, they are not aware of.

For them, if they cannot see it, smell it, or taste it - it doesn't exist. But, they have to admit, it does attract a lot of money! Why, they have no idea.

I was part of this crowd, in Southern California, in the Eighties. It attracted the worst kind of people, as new technologies always do, Hundreds of companies sprang up, and then died - like mushrooms growing on manure.

This craziness also produced the Internet, and the dot-com boom. The net result, was that most of these companies died - to be replaced by only a few - Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.

And the Cloud, that they all used, that made them more efficient and powerful.

The only thing that some people noticed, was that the good jobs were now Computer jobs. And most people did not notice that - or much of anything else.

The Computer became smarter, but most people became stupider.

This is Illiberal Democracy, and it exists almost everywhere/