Last week my computer died. It felt like having my favorite coffee, my favorite dinner, my favorite dessert was taken away, stolen, confiscated. One single desktop is my lone link to the digital age. So withdrawal was even worse than quitting tobacco cold turkey.
Now I’m breaking in a new machine. Guess what? All my bookmarks are gone. I have to search for websites which used to be a click away. Worse my credentials no longer work. Many digital vendors VERIFY customers by pinging their mobile devices. I don’t own cellphones or PDAs or Gamer handhelds, so I’m treated like a Syrian refugee in the great funky CLOUD.
If you’re dull as dirt and aspire to nothing more than becoming a couch potato, you’re probably OK. For the rest of us who’ve harbored a few original thoughts over the last two years, we’re in deep dog do. The CLOUD mavens mistrust us like nobody’s business. They want to make us feel like worms under stormtrooper’s boots. I hate taking calls from robotic voices that give me lists of numbers to verify I’m a human being.
The CLOUD knows everything. The CLOUD is the law. The CLOUD judges everyone. Consumers are assumed to be terrorists. We must prove ourselves otherwise. There are no courts of appeal. The CLOUD mavens are judges, juries and executioners. Welcome to the bright future on the information highway. Mind the tolls.
Now I’m breaking in a new machine. Guess what? All my bookmarks are gone. I have to search for websites which used to be a click away. Worse my credentials no longer work. Many digital vendors VERIFY customers by pinging their mobile devices. I don’t own cellphones or PDAs or Gamer handhelds, so I’m treated like a Syrian refugee in the great funky CLOUD.
If you’re dull as dirt and aspire to nothing more than becoming a couch potato, you’re probably OK. For the rest of us who’ve harbored a few original thoughts over the last two years, we’re in deep dog do. The CLOUD mavens mistrust us like nobody’s business. They want to make us feel like worms under stormtrooper’s boots. I hate taking calls from robotic voices that give me lists of numbers to verify I’m a human being.
The CLOUD knows everything. The CLOUD is the law. The CLOUD judges everyone. Consumers are assumed to be terrorists. We must prove ourselves otherwise. There are no courts of appeal. The CLOUD mavens are judges, juries and executioners. Welcome to the bright future on the information highway. Mind the tolls.
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