Hard Drive's Get the Boot

Not so long ago (depending on how long you think 12 years is) I remember one of the perks of the after school day care program being that they had a bunch of computers, and one of the games they had was Oregon Trail. I didn't know much about computers then (not that I know a lot now), but thought that being the carpenter from Ohio was a no-brainer compared to the banker from Boston. On top of Oregon Trail, playing soccer outside and hand hockey with a ball of masking tape equaled loads of fun.

I digress. The computer game that I somehow enjoyed playing endlessly used something that is on its way out to extinction. The game was on a floppy disk, not even a CD-Rom. It's hard to believe, but with our world becoming increasingly digital and technologically clean, the way of the floppy drive is becoming non-existent. Sure, I have a drive on my laptop from freshman year, and the computer my family just trashed had one for sure. Do today's computers still have one?

With I-Pad's, Kindle's, and who knows what else coming out at a rather frightening pace, it is clear that the past 15 years or so has seen a revolutionary change in our technology. The rapid increase in computer technology eventually put the floppy drive on the back-burner (ready to be burned). What's next to slowly fade out?

Although I'm certainly not technologically savvy by any point, I can see that the CD is being phased out, and even further, can envision the DVD being passed by as well. No one ever thought there would be a day where CD's would become obsolete, and IPod's would be owned by every single person in the country (there really is no better way than having all of your music in one place). Moving back to college, I had to bring a box full of my DVD's just so I had a few options when choosing what movie to watch.

What if there was a device, similar to the IPod, which could store your entire movie collection? There would be a way to simply plug it into your television, and you could go from there. Scroll down the screen to find "Silence of the Lambs". In the mood for something lighter? Use your fingers to find "Dumb and Dumber". I know the Blue-Ray disc has made even further improvements to our already stunning visual displays Americans are becoming accustomed to, but I can't help but believe something of this magnitude will hit our stores shelves within the next five years.