veil of [clouds]
Alan Watts has a lecture titled Veil of Thought, where he rambles on (in a fantastic manner) about how the thoughts we accumulate, and create ruts out of, actually prevent us from seeing reality as it is; all we "see" is what our particular thought about reality, resonating in our brain, is telling us.
Something similarly fishy is going with cloud services and computers.
It all starts with one computer, and it breaks, then another computer and maybe a phone and a desktop. Maybe a Linux machine too, down the hallway. All of a sudden, our files/folders, our external cognitive self, is partly here and there, and it feels incoherent.
Enter the cloud. Your external cognitive self, is now rendered coherent by yet another computer somewhere, but since it synchronizes here with there, it all feels coherent again. But its a veil, there is no coherent self, just a bunch of independent threads which tell the same story.