I freak about digital storage files sometimes.
These are the thoughts that clog up my brainwaves from time-to-time…
I consume large amounts of bytes each day. I can’t let go of old data no matter how hard I try. I admit it. I’m a digital hoarder. So then what will my world look like even in 20 years?? And then if that is extreme…think of what the WORLD will look like! Will it be clouded over and junked up with servers?? Will we have furniture designed out of servers and hard drives? Will all of our heat be generated by the rpm’s of hard drives? Will the only air-conditioning eventually be attached to the house-server as a whole-house hard-drive-fan cooling system? Will HVAC be replaced by some other acronym? How will they make computers start to forget? Do we want them to only live as long as we do? Is that the green thing to do? Should a computer only be able to contain one copy of something for the length of a really long lifetime–otherwise it should be forgotten and erased? Is that encouraging people to print? Or is it only encouraging people to print the things that actually matter? Or is it entirely wrong because storage gets smaller and smaller in physical size? Even so…will our world just be overrun with nano-sized diodes of memory material? What if that is all a black hole is? Is it better that they’re so small that we can’t see them? (After all, you can’t really see bed bugs but they can make you absolutely nuts!) But then does it matter how small it is–if its leaching something out into our world either way? We don’t really KNOW the long-term affects of living around so much hardware. So then is it really green to let them forget. Keep it manageable and move on? Let the world regenerate in a lifetime if data is not made into something more special within that lifespan…
It all seems reasonable enough for me to go to sleep about it. Good morning Wednesday.
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