>>It does not open things up.
Seems to me that Cloud removes most control from those who embrace it, potentially reducing future choice. But isn't that just a matter of context? Rooms full of telephonists created ultimate corporate control over communication until innovation replaced them with cheaper channels selected and controlled by others, but things still opened up in ways that were unimaginable while people remained focused on the switchboard.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
