Stuff gets too reliant on being "connected."

All the cool people are telling us that the future will have all our data AND applications in "the Cloud," while we just use what are basically terminals to access stuff.

No way, pal.

I like to keep my crap where I can see it. I use the Cloud for one type of data backup, along with old reliable backup drives and other methods. That's it.

If the net goes down, I can run everything here (except net access of course) just fine.

It's not just computers that are getting lazy. Those wall clocks I told you about that set their time from a radio signal? If they don't get their nightly signal check, they start to drift off time. And not just by seconds, either. It's like the manufacturer decided it didn't really have to have any decent quartz-or-whatever "clock" hardware in there any more.