I think cloud computing is going to stay, really, it’s just the next logical step in data sharing.

However, I do like to “own” my stuff. Have it on my own hard drive and control what happens with it. I’m not a big fan of doing everything online.

I like Google Docs for instance, but I never used it a lot because I don’t want all my documents to be stored by Google. I want all my documents to be stored by me. I only use it for sharing documents and collaboration. (Two very good reasons for using the Cloud.)

I hope it will get easier to link your own machine “to the cloud” in the future. Essentially like running your own server. Once that happens people can simply add items to the cloud by having the files on a designated part of their hard drive.

Then we just need a way to index files and data shared in this new and flexible cloud. Probably the hardest part.