David Daniels
davedoesdisney
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- Feb 1, 2016
OK. Dog with a bone here. One of the issues discussed earlier was about prints versus "always in the cloud."
I am honestly really curious. Does anyone have any decent research on the long-term viability of cloud storage? As in extrapolated out to the multi-decade level? I have several magnetic storage mediums sitting around that I can no longer access (3420, Travan, Zip). Yes, there is techonolgy somewhere to read them but it isn't ubiquitously available. Will the cloud be different? Yeah, I got a load of stuff out there too so am concerned.
Short story long: Just watched this msytery. It took over 70 years to solve. All based on observations that came down to one print (from Joe Rosenthal's SpeedGraphic) compared to the iconic Iwo flag raising shot (also Joe's). I'm trying to picture the availability of "all my shots in the cloud" as being something that will even exist in 2086 as other than a memory and coming up bupkis.
50 years from now my kids will be able to show their grandchildren shots of their first visit to WDW in the 90's. I'm not so sure I can make that claim about the pics on their phones right now.
Yes, I'm a curmudgeonly old Luddite. But don't I have as good a chance of being right as I am wrong too?
Hmm....
There's a key ingredient you're hitting on here, change. It's up to you (me) to adapt. When we buy a house, we don't leave everything in that house and start over, we transfer it. Is the cloud a forever answer? Who knows. But when it changes, it's my responsibility to pack it all up and move it. To me, that's way easier to do than having thousands of pieces of physical photographs to keep up with. But again, it's up to me to not let my opportunity to transfer before my storage option of the present, isn't future proof.