Storing data is an issue that was discussed in class and Professor O’Malley used General Meigs issue with it after the civil war and after thought it is still very much an issue today. Consider the amount of information we encounter on a daily basis whether they are photos, videos, articles, papers and various other forms of information that inevitably requires… ahh you got it – storage!

My issue is with storage for my phone – I get notifications daily that I am at the data limit for my iPhone storage. I then proceed to save everything to my laptop, then delete off my iPhone which creates whole new storage issue on my laptop. Recently I have found online storage databases such as dropbox and google-drive – but do I really trust those? Or I have external hard-drives but even those will fill up eventually and the practicality of using 3-4 hard-drives to access your files is a bit tedious. Trust me – I have been there plugging and unplugging devices to find one item.

The results could very well be found in finding ways to make information store in smaller files (but that would have to be done by folks who are way superior in the digital arts than myself). As technology continues to grow at rapid speeds do we have the availability to meet those demands…. Otherwise what is the use if we cannot properly utilize it?