Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

It seems the last time the title question was asked was when two dinosaurs were chatting while sinking into a tar pit.

I didn’t know the answer to the title question for any of the computers that I use everyday. At one time, not too long ago, that was the preeminent question to ask and know about any computer. I remember when the answer was “ten Megabytes.”

Today, who knows and who cares? All our stuff is stored in a cloud here or there or somewhere. There are a few young dinosaurs I know like my son who has a personal copy of just about every song ever recorded by man on one of his hard disks. He is a young something-or-other that puts him on the outskirts of humanity or some such worthwhile group.

Our photos are on Facebook. Our music is on iTunes. Our words are on WordPress. Everything, in one form or another, is on DropBox or Google Drive (itself a dinosaur having been replaced by Google Docs and Google Sheets and Google something-or-other).

Somebody owns the hard disks that store our lives and aspirations. I have no idea how big those hard disks are or where they are or if they will still be spinning next week.

I miss those good old 360KiloByte floppy disks.