Hard drives occasionally give up the ghost, in which case the only chance of getting any of the contents back is a time-consuming and potentially expensive data-recovery process. And, of course, computers can meet many other nasty ends: theft, lightning, fife, spilled coffee and so on. That’s what is so great, in principle, about cloud computing – all your files, emails and the like reside on the web, so as and when the unthinkable happens to your computer, it’s simply a matter of getting yourself set up with another machine and then pointing it at your online data pool. Equally, when you trade in an old model for something newer, migrating becomes a whole lot less painful when all your files and tools are online anyway.

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