>It took mind-bending scientific breakthroughs, fantastical-sounding neural networks and imagination-defying AI programs to accomplish what? To turn workers toiling in warehouses, driving cabs and delivering food into [[cloud proles]]. To create a world where markets are increasingly replaced by [[cloud fiefs]]. To force businesses into the role of [[vassal capitalists|vassals]]. And to turn all of us into [[cloud serfs]], glued to our smartphones and tablets, eagerly producing the cloud capital that keeps our new overlords on cloud nine.