Cloud - iCloud?

" I wandered Lonely As A Cloud...."


William Wordsworth could never have envisaged the loaded meaning his words have at the start of the 21st century.


If you are Apple user, as I am, then whether we like it or not we are being hustled into iCloud.

At first I thought this was very romantic having all my information stored somewhere up there in the stratosphere. The other day in the Caribbean I pulled down all my stuff from iCloud and i must admit I was a bit gobsmacked by the technology.

For it stores all my music, photos, apps, calendars, documents, and wirelessly pushes them to all my devices.

"But where exactly is iCloud?" I asked a techie person in my local Apple store.


"Its another name for a server farm"

"Oh yes I have heard about server farms, huge buildings like several football pitches stitched together housing digital information.

But where exactly are they?"

"America..."
"But where?"


A guarded look came over his face.

" We don't really broadcast these facts. They are in the mid-west . Huge underground structures
Two miles deep."


"So, if we have a nuclear war which wipes out all life on the planet our digital lives will continue.....two miles underground?"

"Quite!"

Life was much simpler in Wordsworth's time.