Just one example (courtesy iMedicalApps): startup Cellscope developed a smartphone camera attachment to create a personal otoscope (for looking at your eardrum) that links to a Cloud-based diagnosis engine to determine whether your child has an ear infection.

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So persuasive is cloud computing that companies have been known to plunge into it with gusto while turning a deaf ear to warnings from information security officers, who see gaping holes in the corporate data security fabric where business managers see agility and economic benefit.

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At times it is as though they are playing games, hovering in the distance, then beside your ear for a moment, then gone again, evaporating like the water that nourishes this cloud forest and the town at its edge.

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