Spalls Hurgenson <
spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 02:14 this Wednesday (GMT):
<Ramble>
// I'm going off topic here. I know, a radical departure for my
// posts, right? Still, I felt a warning was warranted. This post
// has nothing to do with video games (it does, however, fall
// within the 'comp.sys.ibm.pc' part of the newsgroup, so maybe
// that earns me some forgiveness?)
Today, I just received my 1TB micro-SD card in the mail. I ordered it
online and it arrived in a box. Not a big box but... well, if you've
ever seen the size of a micro-SD card, you know how ridiculous that a
box was involved at all. But that ridiculous shipping is not really
what I want to talk about.
It's the fact that I know own a storage device capable of holding more
data than I EVER owned in the first twenty years of owning
computers... and it's smaller than my finger nail.
I mean, holy shit.
I literally had to pull out an old hard-drive and put the micro-SD
Card on top of it, just as a comparison. It was a compulsion I
couldn't resist. That heavy, massive 3.5" chunk of aluminium and
spinning rust, the oldest drive in my collection, held 1/50th of what
this new fleck of plastic --barely even visible against its bulk--
could contain. In the year 2000, I could have copied the contents of
every floppy, every CD-ROM and every hard-drive I owned onto that card
and had room to spare.
And I bought this miracle of technology not only for what was,
essentially, pocket change (okay, a little bit more than that, but
given its capacity, it's still next to nothing in cost), but on a
whim. I don't NEED a 1TB micro-SD card. I don't even really need a
128GB micro-SD card. But I wanted one, they were available, and so...
now I own one. Because the damn things are commodity items. They're
ORDINARY.
There's a lot of shit I hate about this timeline, but the tech... the
tech is extraordinary. Sure, it's often terrifying thinking about how
it will be used, but damn it if the capability of our science isn't surpassing the dreams of even the most far-reaching SF author.
Sometimes, surrounded as we are by all these miracles, we forget that.
God, I love living in the future.
</Ramble>
The hardware is really impressive, yeah, but the software guys use it as
an excuse to be lazy :( Like, with all the +250GB games out there, high
ram usage (especially on windows), etc, it does feel outweighed
sometimes. But I do agree that the stuff we've done is quite extremely
cool.
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