Summary
Whether you agree with the assertions or their counterarguments, the discussion in this chapter should make you question conventional wisdom. The traditional narrative is appealing but not necessarily completely correct. Many characteristics and behaviors of the cloud are more nuanced than simplistic arguments would suggest. And future developments will no doubt impact validity of the conventional wisdom and its counterarguments. In the rest of the book, we delve further into many of these topics, and you will be able to draw your own conclusions.
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