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Stephen Downes

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Is the cloud, asks Jonathon Zittrain, really the backbone of the future we want? Cloud computing exposes us to fraud and hackers, it trades away our privacy, and it puts us into the hands of providers who can change our content, tell us what apps are good for us, and restrict our speech. "More and more, your reality is contingent on the cloud and features that are dictated by business judgments," said Zittrain.

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