When I caught this article on Cloud Computing, I caught the title from a different angle and meandered down an odd tangent of thought. Most things that we have in our world define what we create - or how we view most things in our worlds defines how we think and create. That may or may not be completely true, I do not know, but it does seem to me that people learn best by analogy. It's a great way to transfer a common experience - and because of that it is very effective in just about any communication. 'It flows like water', or 'it resembles a tree's structure' or 'a cloud of computers'.

It also helps define what we design - we design in the manner that we think, and we think in the context of our experiences. Some of us don't, though - some of us do something different. The genius, I believe, probably doesn't see things in the same manner and probably relies less on thinking within the bounds of words. It's the inductive kick of the brain, maybe, that pushes some people beyond the level which seems to require analogy - they can, if only for a short time, come up with something completely new and different that defies analogy.

I'm not sure about this. It's a thought.