In a piece written for TechRepublic, author Franklin Okeke says that cloud computing will prove inadequate in the future, though he doesn’t identify what will replace the cloud except a mention of the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, and AI in smart devices and smart homes. He says: The fact that all of these are either connected to cloud services, can be run on the cloud, or are developed by cloud providers leads me to disagree with his prediction regarding cloud computing.