> "nobody will want to own computers, you just rent them for tasks"

Very prescient indeed for someone in 1970 to predict the success of AWS

Until you understand how 1984 extrapolates with today's technologies - and the only defense against corrupt-captured state(s) and industrial complexes toeing the establishment line, in ever increasing consolidation of so-called power-control, is decentralized-distributed tech - and then where the centralization [especially physical infrastructure] becomes their major weakness; yes, there is the control of means of production-funnel of resources-energy issue but if shit really hits the fan than guerilla tactics appear to always reign supreme, whereby major supply lines, energy production, an CPU architecture will be first to be targeted.

The bad actors through subversion are currently attempting their best to not cause panic for the herds to react more strongly and more quickly than their apparatus they're currently ready to handle [at least that they believe they're ready to handle] - however things can fall apart very quickly, the Berlin wall fell much sooner than practically all predicted.

We had timesharing on mainframes. Everything old is new again.

It's right for business (partially - how are the business employees managing AWS?), wrong for personal use.

Nobody's renting their phone on a task-by-task basis, they're staring at a personal computer for hours a day in their leisure time by choice.

That's how computers were before the rise of personal computers