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Feb 20, 2026

๐Ÿ”’ Building Continuum - Chapter 21 โ€” Cloud as Dependency Engine

Cloud infrastructure reshaped modern computing by abstracting complexity and enabling rapid scale. Its advantages are real. But abstraction concentrates authority. This chapter examines how subscription economics, remote hosting, and accumulated data gravity create structural dependency โ€” not through malice, but through architecture โ€” and why local-first design seeks to rebalance that asymmetry without rejecting the cloud entirely.

Building Continuum - Chapter 21 โ€” Cloud as Dependency Engine

Cloud infrastructure reshaped modern computing by abstracting complexity and enabling rapid scale. Its advantages are real. But abstraction concentrates authority. This chapter examines how subscription economics, remote hosting, and accumulated data gravity create structural dependency โ€” not through malice, but through architecture โ€” and why local-first design seeks to rebalance that asymmetry without rejecting the cloud entirely.


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