Today I bought something I wanted, a 1 gig thumb drive. As I downloaded my personal files into it, I marveled at how the price of things have dropped. I remember to this day my first hard drive, a 20mb, 70ms seek time, for my Fat Mac, way back in 1985. This was at a time when you could fit the DOS and GUI, plus Word on one 800k disk, and use a 2nd drive to hold your files. 20mb was just monstrous back then. Today I have 700 mb files, and some of my folders take up more space than that "little" 20mb drive. I paid the princely sum of $2,000, plus tax, for a grand total of about $100 a megabyte. That thumb drive, 500 times the size of that initial drive, cost me about $70, just a touch under 7 cents a megabyte. Such is technology.
Soon, when my paranoid dreams have come true, you will be able to have one of these chips implanted under your skin, and accessible via wireless technology, so your files are always with you, no matter what.
What a country!
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