The problem I see with your argument is that we are not doing any real space exploration. We are not sending people to mars, or building a moon station, or mining asteroids. We are only doing recreational travels to low earth orbit.

I am sure that there are many people who would accept risking their lives in other to set foot on Mars. Unfortunately it seems we are retreating from Space.

The Earth will inevitably perish. If not by our own actions, or by some tragic natural disaster; the Sun will simply die out. To have a chance to survive we must face space exploration.

Carl Sagan reminds us why we need Space Exploration

The lost is real if all the copies of a piece of work disappear. The lost is imaginary/trivial if more copies exists somewhere else. For some files in Megaupload there are no known copies.

It seems not all developers agree with you. See Android vs iOS: A Developer’s Perspective

"... the equation for me was surprisingly tilted in favor of Android thanks to the simplicity of developing for it. Having gone through the process, I have a clearer understanding of Google’s strategy: I think they hope to win because their platform is so much more developer friendly"

Carl Sagan has something to say also on this subject http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wJYpRJQVbo

Say goodbye to turntable strobe lights

On the open-source front, the only option I know is ownCloud. It provides the software to build your 'Cloud' storage, but you must provide your own hardware.

On the other side, you can try Wuala. It is not Open Source, but it encrypts all your files before uploading them. There are clients for almost every platform.

Another sane advice from the guy who claimed that writing a new web-browser was the worst decision the Mozilla Foundation could make.

Oldboy corridor scene

"A paperless office is as useful as a paperless toilet. Some things would be impractical..."

Let me introduce you to The Bidet

"Why does every single computer need to be geek friendly?"

Because a potential geek can be born in any family, and unless you are planning to offshore all your engineer task to China, you will need these people. I have a M.Sc. in Computer Science thanks of the interest in programming I grew by tinkering with a C64 when I was a child.