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news n Technology | DOI: 10.1145/1364782.1364786 Brian Hayes When personal computers arrived cloud computing in the 1980s, part of their appeal was the promise of “liberating” programs As software migrates from local PCs to distant Internet servers, and data from the central computing users and developers alike go along for the ride. center. (Ted Nelson, the prophet of hy- pertext, published a book titled Com- puter Lib/Dream Machines in 1974.) In- HE G REEk MYTHS tell of crea- In a sense, what we’re seeing now dividuals were free to control their own tures plucked from the sur- is the second coming of cloud com- computing environment, choosing face of the Earth and en- puting. Almost 50 years ago a similar software to suit their needs and cus- Tshrined as constellations transformation came with the creation