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Even though the cloud is permeating everything we do today, I was recently reminded that it’s even omnipresent far outside the walls of tech. With all the TV ads, as well as our most prominent airports and U.S. highways peppered with cloud-based billboards, even our parents know how to properly use cloud in sentence today. But to hear about the cloud from the pulpit at church on Sunday, that caught me a bit off guard. (And no, the punch line was not that heaven was in the clouds!)

A visiting homilist explained that he could travel light—especially to a high-tech place like Silicon Valley now that all his information was in the cloud and easily accessible from anywhere, anytime. It was true, he had no problem accessing his homily, until he tried to print and the printer ran out of ink. Unfortunately, the content was stuck in the cloud so he had to “wing it.” Needless to say, this quickly brings us back down to earth with a firm reminder that as powerful as the cloud is, at some point we are limited by the performance of (or lack thereof) our local devices.

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