One of the things I most like about Glenn Reynolds is his knack for linking just the right Amazon sale item at just the right time. I am absolutely delighted with two recent purchases I would otherwise not have seen. One was this absolutely nifty little 64 Gigabyte thumb drive, which of course is not “little” in its capacity but only in its size. It is fast and makes long large file transfers a snap. 64 GB is more than some run-of-the-mill hard drives can hold, and I am old enough to remember when hard drives were measured in megabytes. I remember when 300 megabyte hard drives first came on the market, and people were saying it was ridiculous because no one would ever need that much space. Wrong; if human history shows anything, it’s that when new real estate opens up, the space will be used. Memory is like real estate in that we always we need more. Virtual real estate opens new space everywhere — always more and cheaper.
Speaking of more space, again thanks to Glenn’s tip, I also got this wonderful Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1 TB USB 3.0 portable backup driv, which right now is backing up the upstairs computer. It automatically runs backup software which is smart enough to automatically copy only what is important, and to update only what you have added, every time you plug it in.
Nice.
I wish memory could be as redundant and incapable of being lost in the human mind as it is in the memory spaces we have created.
Come to think of it, it would also be nice if unwanted (bad) memories could be deleted, too… But I guess that gets into morality. I’d pay big money to delete some of mine.
So what to do?
(I really don’t know.)