Increasingly, we are moving from paper based systems of documenting things such as papers, reports, and creative works to digital and online forms of storing such data. For example, we are moving from printing out physical photographs from our cameras to having most of our pictures saved on our computers and shared online. It is definitely becoming cheaper as well, to store information online and it conserves space.
I remember my Dad having stacks of photo albums and videotapes of family videos and events. Much of the pictures I take today are stored in my laptop, yet my parents are not so tech-saavy to view online social networking sites to view uploaded pictures. However, it is becoming more expensive to print pictures, and therefore it is a definite cost saver by storing them digitally.
Even when I create papers and personal works, most of them are stored digitally in my laptop or servers. This definitely saves space and provides another storage method that could reduce the risk of physically storing material such as losing it through a fire, theft or misplacement. When I was in my early years of high school, I wrote some English papers, that I found amusing when I read them after I graduated high school. Unfortunately, those papers got thrown out, when my family was spring cleaning. Therefore, in some ways, digital storage can be a back-up to physical storage of information. In addition, the images or information would not get physically damaged or destroyed such as old photographs.
