I'm openly paranoid about many things. Probably a secondary reason I'm basically bald at 25. The future of my profession is one I'm very paranoid about. It's one I love, despite all my moanings, and as the world starts it's seemingly inexorable move back to the mainframe^Wcloud, I fear that as time progresses we'll be in a world where there are few of us outside of large cloud companies. How much longer is on-premises server hardware still required?