Tetrad of Emerging Technology with Progressions
Data Storage: The Flash
Drive
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Data Storage: The
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The flash drive allows users to
store additional data without incurring the cost of upgrading their computer's
hardware. It is portable and allows
users to edit material on any computer device.
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The flash
drive obsoletes CDs, DVDs, floppy discs, external hard drives, Zip in some
instances, and even the computer’s hard drive in the case of the netbook and
the latest computers that use cloud technology for storing data. The flash drive also negates the need for
a paper trail.
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The
technology reverses into cloud storage.
Cloud computing has invaded the world of storing data and allows users
to work from any device and still have access to one's own files and
documents.
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The
technology retrieves the art of storing information for the purposes of
transferring from one user to another.
Information was written on the walls of caves, stored in the brain and
transferred by oral tradition, and later written on papyrus, scrolls, paper,
hard drive, and external drives.
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One emerging technology with progressions is data
storage. Data storage dates back to
recording information on the walls of caves to using the brain for storing data
to storing data today in the clouds.
Along the way storing additional data using computer technology has
continued to progress from the external hard drive to the floppy discs to CDs
to zip to DVDs to flash drives to SD cards to now using tools such as Google
drive and DropBox to store data in the clouds.
As I speculate how the technology of storing data may evolve, I consider
the possibility of storing data on crystal via what I would term to be a
holographic projection (Hudson
Reference
Hudson, J.
(2005). This laser trick’s a quantum leap. WIRED.
Retrieved from http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2005/10/69033.
