Physical and Virtual Documentation

A majority of the population today has a computer, whether it's an old outdated computer or a new apple macbook. With the convenience of being able to save pretty much anything onto the hard drive including photos, important documents, videos, etc we become dependent on this technology to keep everything important to us safe. The problem with saving important documents in digital format is that it's not foolproof against keeping important photos, documents, videos safe. At any moment our computer could fail. We could be surfing the internent one day, and catch a virus that won't even let us access our computer without having to reformat the hard drive, meaning everything on the hard drive will be gone. Of course we can save photos, documents, and whatnot on some kind of cloud storage system, but that is not foolproof either. That business/website could go out of business any day, and when that happens, you'll be left with nothing. I went on a trip to Vietnam during the summer, and took a lot of pictures. When I got back to the states, I transferred all of the pictures onto my laptop, and deleted all the pictures on the memory card so there's enough space to take new pictures. If my laptop was to get stolen or break, all those precious pictures will be gone. Now that I'm writing about it, I'm going to make sure to burn all those pictures onto a cd to be on the safer side. All course physical documents does have its place, but it will cost you. If its an important document, you can always print it out which will require a printer and ink. If there are meaningful photos, you can always go develop them, which costs money. Like I said though, a lot of people have become dependent with the computer that they won't bother printing out important documents or go develop their photos as a backup. For me, I don't remember the last time i went to go develop photos that i've taken or printed out any essays that didn't require it to be turned in to the teacher.