Amazing Technology
By alaskanray
@alaskanray (4636)
United States
November 11, 2011 3:44am CST
Last week I bought a flash drive for external storage of my documents. Now, I do have a zip drive and several zip disks, most of which are only 100 megs each and these babies are like 4x4" each. My new flash drive, though carries 16 Gigs and measures maybe 1/2"x1"! WHOA, MAMA!!!
It's like the music formats that have evolved over the years. We used to play 12" vinyl LPs on record players. When CDs first came out we all thought it was a joke because we could not imagine anything that small holding as much music as our big old vinyls. Now we have the mp3 players that hold thousands of songs on them and they measure about 2"x3"!
And I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the whole blue tooth stuff. Blow me away, right?
What technology blows you away? Isn't it amazing???
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6 responses
@henkiprananda (2729)
• Indonesia
11 Nov 11
i always bought it cause that important for me, especially cause i use it for increase my computer peformance ( using software). but i lost it.
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@alaskanray (4636)
• United States
12 Nov 11
Yeah, my first flash drive got broken because it was so large, it stuck out so far from my computer and got bumped. This new one is so tiny the danger now is losing it.
@henkiprananda (2729)
• Indonesia
13 Nov 11
hahaha.... well, maybe we must find something that can found a lost small thing, especially flash drive.
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@alaskanray (4636)
• United States
22 Nov 11
Yup, I know just what you mean. It's all a marketing conspiracy to milk the most money out of the consumer.
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@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
11 Nov 11
I recently bought an external hard drive to store a lot of my things the size is one terrabyte or something, but my techy told me I still have to back everything up on discs because any sort of hard drive can crash..its all so complicated.
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@alaskanray (4636)
• United States
11 Nov 11
Oh, yes...the more parts you have, the more things that can go wrong. LOL
@sid556 (30960)
• United States
11 Nov 11
Hi Alaskanray,
If I think too deeply on it at all, I have to say I find it all just amazing...all the changes over the years. I grew up in the 60's and early 70's. I kind of just rolled with all the upgrades and got used to them along the way but when you compare back then to now...unbelievable! Computers? Couldn't even have imagined owning one or wrap my brain around it's possibilities. Heck,calculators were not even common household items..were they even around back then? I remember my mom had this little red plastic gadget with buttons that she'd add our groc. up on..it wasn't electronic. No cell phones, no cordless phones...actually no push buttons either. Music was vinyl ( which I do miss) or radio. We did have reel to reel tape players that I did try to record music on...didn't always work out so well. The digital cameras, the i-pads etc.e-books..all things I could not have even imagined growing up.
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@alaskanray (4636)
• United States
12 Nov 11
I, too, grew up in the same era and I know just what you mean. I remember my sister getting a job as a keypunch operator punching holes in the cards that ran the computer operations at a state office. The computers took up whole rooms!
When I started working for the state, we had the desktop computers with 5 inch floppies, then they switched to the 3 inch floppies. I could never imagine anything smaller. Look at us now! And all within my lifetime...and it's not over yet.
I used to have a vinyl album collection of over 500 albums that took up almost an entire wall in my room. Now I have over 100 CDs that fit into a carousel on my dresser with lots of room to spare.
Even more recently, my first flash drive was at least 2 inches long and stuck out so far from my laptop that it got bumped and broken. This new one is about a third as long as the first one and almost disappears when I plug it in.
Also, my first computer was a desktop that weighed a ton and had to have a separate monitor and took up most of the space on my big desk. Now I use a laptop that I can use from bed and it has more memory than that bulky desktop did.
It all is truly amazing, n'est ce pas?
@luckygrey67 (765)
• Indonesia
11 Nov 11
Yeah, that's amazing. Developing of technology going crazy and cheaper. But if we're following the development of those, it will make us crazy, 'coz too much spend money. Lucky on you....
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@alaskanray (4636)
• United States
11 Nov 11
You got that right! If we try to keep up we can end up spending megabucks in little or no time at all!
@jtj_hello (627)
• Philippines
11 Nov 11
This is one great thing change can do specially on technology. Technology is the fastest changing thing today. What are applicable today may no longer be applicable tomorrow. What we can do in our part is to adapt. It is really amazing that those things you thought are impossible to happen are happening now in front of you.
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@alaskanray (4636)
• United States
12 Nov 11
Just within my parents' lifetime the advancements were phenomenal. They saw the birth of the passenger plane, automatic transmissions on automobiles, the music industry, movies, and were around for the development of the PC and videotape not to mention CDs, cassette tapes and the now defunct 8 track. Within my own lifetime the advancements have come at a more rapid pace and in different, more subtle ways but they are nonetheless just as amazing.
