How many clouds does the world need?

In the ACM Turing centenary, Ken Thompson said:

Ken Thompson: The future of OS is just a stream to the cloud. Doesn’t see “universal cloud computer” Companies will try to dominate

This is so similar to the quote attributed to Thomas J. Watson (“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers”) that I could not help asking.

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