In the beginning, there was data. And this data was held nearly physical until technology advanced to the point of it being held on disks and eventually solid state drives. This data was at first kept locally. Each person's data was their own. When networks were established, links between data was achieved and could be shared or duplicated.
For the Internet, technology has gone in such a route that centralized servers are no longer needed. The structure that looked like a pyramid now looks more like a sphere, a sphere with no center. This is achieved by way of swarm technology wherein each member of the swarm can share the data with any other member in the swarm. Pyramids were built by man, but the swarm is taken from nature.
The competitor to the natural swarm is of the dubiously named Cloud for the Cloud is anything but natural. Instead of allowing for the free exchange of data between any other person without the need for a middle man, the Cloud insists on keeping everything to itself, relying on your faith that the Cloud will never fail. If the Cloud were to fail, not only is your ability to access your data lost, but the data itself could be lost. If one member of the swarm fails, the others are still there to provide the data.
Decentralization is the key, and just as in within data management, it is the natural way of everything in life. One man-made structure at the top is unnatural, but the swarm of the people have the true power.
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