And it seems to me that we talk a lot about the cloud, but every time we put something on the cloud, we give up some responsibility for it. We are less connected to it. We let other people worry about it. And that doesn’t seem right. There’s a great Neal Stephenson line where he says that “wired people should know something about wires”. We should know where our Internet comes from, and we should know what it is that physically connects us all.

Andrew Blum