Cloudy Thinking

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?