Friday, August 22, 2014

that's the way...

...the world is going, whether we like it or not. The thing no one seems to consider is what will happen when the system is disrupted beyond recovery. How all that stored information will be accessed when the grid is no longer functioning. How frighteningly dependent we are as individuals, and as a society on electricity. How calmly we continue to assume those wires and cords will continue to supply the juice to run all our appliances and devices.

For whatever reason, be it natural events (some of which we have brought on ourselves through lack of concern and respect for our natural resources) or deliberately sabotaging the environment, there will come a time when we will see undesired effects. Honestly, I am Not a doomsayer, but convinced that we have become far too dependent on technology. Plus convinced we all make so poorly considered assumptions of an unending supply of electricity to power all our gadgets. (That being 'said' as I sit here, after dark, with the lights on, in a cool comfortable house, typing on a computer!)

We seem to be storing a tremendous amount of valuable, irreplaceable information/knowledge in ways that it could easily disappear. When the time comes that we don't have the electricity to run the devices to retrieve it. What to do? What to do? Is this why I continue to be a faithful library patron, with an affinity for the printed word, ink on paper?

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