We still have a ways to go. I’m finding the concept of “cloud” computing, or “cloud” services and applications, can be a difficult one for some people to wrap their heads around. Case-in-point: my wife. She is a tech-savvy girl—she has almost a decade on me with respect to mobile phone usage—yet she still insists on carrying USB memory sticks around in her purse, or in her pocket. Even worse, she will often rely on emailing important work files to herself. I’ve tried to turn her on to using Dropbox, but for some reason, she simply does not want to bother (even though the benefits have been made quite clear to her). I think we need a dead-simple explanation of the benefits of storing files online, on a remote machine, to turn-the-tide.
No matter how many external drive back-ups you have, or burned DVD’s—if your home, office, or studio burns down, or much more likely, gets burglarized, I think it’s a safe bet you’ll lose everything. Your data is 1000x more valuable than your new Macbook Pro and 1TB Lacie drives.
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