Thumbdrives are definitely out. If you think a 2 GB thumbdrive retailing at $10 is a steal, you need to check your eyes. (pronto) Look at that picture, it's a 1 TB external hard disk at $139. & TB is a good solid 1000 gigabytes. It can store up to approximately 4 768 372 photos if 1 photo is around 2 mb. (I don't trust this number. You should, if you trust my math.)

Who uses so much storage? It's just a mad race to get the largest storage capacity, whether you need it or not. Owning a Seagate Raptor 1TB hard disk is glorious but not when you only used 0.2% of the storage capacity. It just brands you as an airhead, contributing to the global warming since you probably chucked your boxful of thumbdrives down the rubbish chute. All that for a 3.5 inch (8.5cm) plastic rectangular object. Whether it's cheap or not, buy what you friggin' need.

Anyway, the first of this was introduced by Hitachi in January 7, 2007. That was two years ago and I was probably living in a place void of IT news. I didn't even need a thumbdrive two years ago, much less an external hard disk.

Oh and if you think TB's not big enough, check out PB (petabyte). It's 1000 TB per PB. Google processes about 20 petabytes of data per day and Facebook has just over 1.5 petabyte of users' photos stored, translating into roughly 10 billion photos. That's b-i-g.

And, if you think about it, the web browser, the games, even your own desktop littered with files isn't real. At all. It's all virtual. (Is it correct?) The internet seems like another world, very much like the rabbit hole Alice went into. Nothing in it is solid, isn't it? How did we (okay, maybe not me included.) created such an illusion, something so misleading? I'm not sure whether this is a misconception or not and would gladly accept any corrections.