Digital Life

Today's world is advancing dramatically before our eyes. We went from writing on stone tablets years ago, to almost everything being digital. When writings are digital, we have easier access to them. We don’t have to worry about anything damaging our prints. Not very many people actually read books or magazines these days. Books can now be read on readers and most magazines can be read on online. Even the newspapers are published on websites. This makes everything more convenient for the readers with just a click of a button. If you go to the library you can still find a lot of books and material to read but you can also find almost all of it on digital copy as well. I like the fact that articles and archives are this way because I take online classes. I don’t always have the ability to go into the school or the library to do research but I know I can find what I need right here on my computer in the comfort of my home. On the other hand, my children haven’t learned the way I did as a child. I have made a point to take my kids to the public library quite a bit, so they can learn the proper way of locating a specific book or topic. If you think about it, the digital copy is a backup to the original. This is a way to be assured you won’t lose the information.  Today’s society has even begun to make and keep personal pictures on digital records. I have realized that this is something I do too. Ten years ago I would take a roll of film to get it developed. Today, all I do is send Walgreens my digital copy from my computer and have them print out one or two pictures at a time. I have tons and tons of actual pictures in my closet, but they are not recent ones. I like having pictures of all my loved ones to look back at years later. In my opinion, this is one downfall to digitalizing everything.