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October 23, 2005
I think, therefore I back up my hard drive
A journalist at The Guardian loses his iMac G3 to a hard drive crash, and then imagines that without it, he cannot function:
Without my computer I couldn't function. Telling myself that Shakespeare wrote with a feather made no difference. My brain craved its connection to the computer's architecture of files and documents. My fingers ached for a keyboard. I couldn't remember how to research a story without Googling, and communication without constant access to email was impossible. I'd become so used to having a thought, and in the same instant writing it down and sending it somewhere, that email itself was now an integral part of the thought process. My brain had become tangled up in the world wide web. By myself, I didn't really exist.Clearly, however, he'd lost the ability to think years ago. When the hard drive went to God, he lost his accounts, the text of numerous articles and most of a novel. If he'd been thinking, he would have backed them up.
Posted by cw at October 23, 2005 06:35 PM
Comments
Well done, it really is amazing, i mean it's common dog that u back up and prepare for events such as a comp crash
Posted by: Rob at October 24, 2005 04:29 PM