Okay, here’s a thought…or maybe more like a stream of
thoughts. Now days, we can store information in the “clouds,” wherever that is.
I don’t have a lot of geeky computer guys for friends so I don’t have anyone to
really explain to me what it means. From the little I’ve been told and from
what I can gather on my own, plus with my own vivid imagination the “clouds”
are pretty much like the “ether” in days gone by…basically “somewhere out there.”
So everyone can now put all their files and stuff in the “clouds.”
What happens when people start dying off? Does their stuff just hang out there
in the clouds getting dusty, taking up space? And thinking of space, what if
the clouds get full? With everyone in the world who has stuff to store in the
clouds storing it there and then their children and grandchildren and
great-grandchildren and since folks are starting to live longer, soon there
will be great-great grandchildren around - with all of them storing stuff in
the clouds, what if the clouds fill up? And don’t forget you still have the
dead people’s stuff hanging out there too!
If the clouds get too full, will there be information
storms? Will strange files just start showing up on everyone’s monitors,
laptops and tablets? Will the guys at Apple find a way to protect Apple users
from such storms? Or maybe it will be worse than that and all those invisible
bytes and bits will start coalescing and forming solid mass. Then the airways
will become full of megabyte and gigabyte “plaques” and people will have a hard
time breathing and seeing and doing anything because everything will be clogged
with miscellaneous information.
Planes will have a hard time navigating the skies because of
all the data plaque clogging up the filter systems on jets and slowing down the
propellers on small planes. Cars and buses will start choking on the highways
as data plaque gets into the air filters.
I wonder what this data plaque will look like? Will it be
transparent like cling wrap or will it have color? Maybe different kinds of
data will have different colors. All the numbers related data might be black or
red and all the words could be blue or green. In the beginning of the
coalescing stage it might appear as movement out of the corner of your eye or
like the shimmering you see when heat is radiating off something. As time goes
on and more stuff gets stored, it gets thicker and thicker. If it gets too thick,
the sun will have a hard time reaching the earth and slowly our world will
change.
“They” say it’s a good idea to back up your files in the
clouds. You will always have access to them no matter where you are. I don’t
know. Sounds like a good idea to me. Then again, maybe not! What do you think?
