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The news is out - Get to work or loose all.
Only a few eight track stereos loom about auctions
and garage sales any more. Close behind them follow
cassettes, cassette players and VHS video.
Our technology is leaving many of us behind. All we
hear about in the news, albeit television, radio or
print news is how wonderful technology is and what
great things it can do for us. This is all true
but... Will it
rob us? Just as we got used to the CD and manically
burnt all our favourite music and photos on dozens
of these handy, shiny, compact little gizmos the DVD
took over.
Just as the tape cassette overlapped with the CD the
DVD overlapped the CD.
For now most computers have DVD's and all movies and
music come on DVD. They hold ten times as much
information as a CD but alas not all computers come
with DVD burners.
Laptops and desktops went from the floppy drive to
the DC Rom - to the DVD and now many manufacturers
are pumping out computers without a DVD or CD rom
drive. Many computer programs, television programs,
music and other media are downloaded now from the
internet.
The 'flash drive', the 'stick' and the ipod
revolutionized our computer experience. Now we can
hold thousands of photos, huge amounts of music,
video and documents all on a tiny USB stick the size
of a lipstick. No more time consuming, complicated
burning - just drag and drop or configure an
automatic search of media.
So where does that leave that huge box of CD's and
DVD's on your shelves?
Years of your family photos, document records, baby
videos and hours and hours of making music mixes are
are all stored on CD's and DVD's. They are getting
dusty, scratched, broken and obsolete.
If you do not print your pictures (yes - on paper)
and save your music on an external drive (physically
larger than the USB flash drive - get a terabyte,
which will also become obsolete) you may loose years
of memories. CD's and DVD players will be eight
track stereos in the near future and besides, they
actually will deteriorate. It is a myth that they
will last forever. Do not test this theory and loose
all your pictures, photos and music.
Something will come after the flash drive but it may
be some time, hopefully.
Of course devices becoming obsolete is only one way
of loosing your pictures and music.
The most common way of loosing photos, videos and
music is by simply by not protecting your computer
and by never 'cleaning' it. Not cleaning dust
bunnies but by cleaning out viruses, ad aware,
trojans, cookies etc. BACK UP - BACK UP - BACK UP.
The computer in our homes are stealing memories. So
many people never print out their pictures, or
emails.
Pictures and letters to one another used to be
something special, keep sakes and indeed our
history. History has relied on our letters and
pictures to record much of who we are. But as our
computer fries and ends up in the garbage heap so
does a large part of who we are - never to be
recaptured.
Will being obsolete be left to procrastination and you
loose your family photos and indeed your history?
Governments are storing our records and documents
with modern technology but will they keep up or will
they be bulldozed over by the the techno train?
Print your pictures and emails and email addresses
You can take your CD, DVD or flash drive to Staples
or Walmart and they may be able to give you good
photo quality pics.
Move music files and video to an external drive.
Clean your computer and backup everything you have
to an EXTERNAL drive.
Don't let technology stab you in the bag or rob you!
Views from Moose Creek Center
questions or help? wendy@moosecreekcenter.com
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