I don’t understand this push to put everything in the cloud. It might make sense for some but a terabyte is relatively cheap and would cover most users for a lifetime. If you put it on the cloud you have no idea who might be rifling through it.
Cloud is an abstraction, and many people probably would feel better knowing where their piece of cloud actually was. Cloud may be quite good for things that don’t need to be spyproof, if you can reconstruct your data easily and if you can keep secure copies of what matters.
The new XBox One and PS4 will do a lot of the processing in the cloud. There will be games where what you see will be done online. “Destiny” for instance.
Accessibility across multiple user devices in a timely manner seems to me to be the only advantage. Sensitive or otherwise important documents should not be entrusted to a third party, however there are those documents that do not rise to that level, that need to be readily and quickly available on whatever device you’re using at a given time.
I’m not sure, but I believe that there are plenty of organizations that are enamored with cloud computing(NSA, IRS, EPA...).