In the beginning, computer users used flat, plastic squares, known by the ancients as floppy discs. Floppy discs only held so many megabytes of information but now consumers can buy hard drives that contain over a million megabytes of space, known as a terabyte. Not only have storage capacities changed, but what types of information that users wanted changed as the digital age came.
The digital age describes the moment where everyone came in contact with and became fully dependent on technology to get information and get it quickly. They were in luck. Apple created the iPod for music that users could play anywhere. Other companies started to create eReaders for digitized books. Though digitizing a book may seem weird, there is actually a very high demand for eBooks. So much so, that the Library of congress has begun to digitize their collection.
The Library of Congress holds more than 32 million different books. At last
As eReaders and eBooks become more popular, a time may come when printed word will become relatively extinct. Many people now are migrating to online sources for their newpapers; it won’t be long until they change to eReaders for keeps. Only time will tell, as it often does, with the continued innovation of media technology.
The amount of information that is now available to you with just a few clicks of the mouse is mind-boggling. As technology rapidly changes in the digital age, it will be amazing what comes next – Maybe a device that mimics the human brain’s storage capacity.