Is I.T. life without " The Cloud " possible ?

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I am trying to hang on to some sort 'privacy' by keeping my personal information on my own devices rather than sending it all out into the multiverse on that lovely fluffy white thing hanging in the sky ( a mega server ! )
I am constantly being plaguaged with instructions to enroll with the cloud, and problems with my live.com account.
Can any of you tech' savvy people out there tell me if 'Cloud' enrollment is essential and inevitable ?