Big fucking hard drive
I just bought a really big fucking external hard drive. It's like 750 gigabytes, which is a shit ton of fuck. It's funny, though - when I bought the components to my new PC a year ago, I was like, "hmmm, 250 GB should last me for a few years." I'm on pace to shatter that within one year, and I couldn't even tell you how. Not a single byte of the drive space consumption is naughty movies, and I've only installed like 4 games. It's just getting out of control with music and funny vids and shit.
Anyhow, I was really struck by how odd it is to be buying storage in that quantity. I mean, adding it up, HOLY FUCK I'LL HAVE A FUCKING TB SITTING ON THE CORNER OF MY DESK. It was hard to imagine such a thing only a handful of years ago. Shit, my fam's 1st PC was like 850 MB. And now what do I have, like 750,000,000 kilobytes, roughly? It's funny that a 10 KB image is still fine enough to capture a fully recognizable image of my face. So, I could pass it to someone who knew me, on a flash card, and they'd say, "Adam!" It's amazing that you can do that -- something so universal and undeniably powerful -- with such a comparably infinitesimal portion of a modern hard disk drive.
What I've been discussing is the simple idea of a 10 KB visual depiction of my face being dwarfed into practical nonexistence by the medium which would store and retain it. Can you imagine that, in our lifetimes, a similar, let's say, 80 terabyte disk image of an exact replica of one's own human mind might be likewise rendered fully insignificant, by even the unfathomably large capacity storage devices we'll carry around in our front pockets?
Well, that is, if the terrorists don't destroy our civilization first and send all our progress back to the Dark Ages. That's why I'm voting McCain in '08.
Anyhow, I was really struck by how odd it is to be buying storage in that quantity. I mean, adding it up, HOLY FUCK I'LL HAVE A FUCKING TB SITTING ON THE CORNER OF MY DESK. It was hard to imagine such a thing only a handful of years ago. Shit, my fam's 1st PC was like 850 MB. And now what do I have, like 750,000,000 kilobytes, roughly? It's funny that a 10 KB image is still fine enough to capture a fully recognizable image of my face. So, I could pass it to someone who knew me, on a flash card, and they'd say, "Adam!" It's amazing that you can do that -- something so universal and undeniably powerful -- with such a comparably infinitesimal portion of a modern hard disk drive.
What I've been discussing is the simple idea of a 10 KB visual depiction of my face being dwarfed into practical nonexistence by the medium which would store and retain it. Can you imagine that, in our lifetimes, a similar, let's say, 80 terabyte disk image of an exact replica of one's own human mind might be likewise rendered fully insignificant, by even the unfathomably large capacity storage devices we'll carry around in our front pockets?
Well, that is, if the terrorists don't destroy our civilization first and send all our progress back to the Dark Ages. That's why I'm voting McCain in '08.
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