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But for me, cloud computing doesn't mean you don't have a local PC with local applications. Lots of my stuff is already in the cloud so to speak. I use dropbox for some things, gmail for my email, google calendar for scheduling stuff for the family, google chrome synchronizes my bookmarks, history, etc.
Cloud computing just makes accessing my data easier. I can get my email on my PC and my phone. With Chrome synchronized between my work
machine and my home machine, it just means I have access to all of my bookmarks and search history regardless of where I physically am. With Dropbox, my files are stored on both my local PC as well as synchronized to the cloud. Thus, if dropbox does ever go down, I still have access to all of my stuff. The only issue with Dropbox is security, which is why I usually put encrypted files up there (truecrypt) or use something like Keepass to store usernames/passwords.