Are SCSI Connectors Still Relevant?

While walking to the coffee machine this morning at work I passed another co-worker in our database department and saw he had a SCSI connector at his desk. I assumed this was for something in the server room that is right behind me. While waiting for my coffee to brew, I continue to talk to him and the rest of the department, making small talk & jokes, and eventually I make mention of SCSI connectors “being inserted to our asses” and how eventually Apple will create a product called “i” which will be just a [Proprietary] data jack on your ass cheek where you will be able to download all your music, movies and podcasts from iTunes. For the sake of this joke I used the ass for comedic purposes and it got the laughs, do what you gotta…. I also said something about there being an optional antenna or wifi inner ear implant so you can communicate with your apple TV and such. So after laughing at the shear absurdity of it all, this got me thinking.

Looking For Answers

I decided to do a little pecking around and look for some info about what actually is the human brain’s data capacity. After clicking and reading a few things I came across some information that Hitachi is working on a 5 terabyte (TB) consumer hard drive (article posted July 3rd 2008) that coincidentally is halfway to human brain capacity. REALLY, there is only 10TB’s of capacity for the human brain? Seems quite scary that we’re developing machines that can store infinitely more data than man himself. GREAT we’re well on our way to human obsolescence!

Not to alarm you so to lighten it up, apparently this statement was made by Hitachi’s Yoshiro Shiroishi. So I wouldn’t accept it as gospel if it is coming from a Japanese corporation, they clearly want you to be set at ease and think their product will hold “your life”. All the other information I found can’t pinpoint the actual size capacity (equivalent to a hard drive) so that 10TBs remains to be refuted or officially accepted as the set in stone (mental) size standard. Honestly, I don’t know what’s scarier, that we have that much shit we need to have backed up nowadays or that is all the data our brains can hold on to and still (sort of) function! In my opinion, I think our brain comes pre-installed with data purging built in. I swear shit I remembered years ago is nowhere to be found in this skull of mine today; but that’s a whole different post…

Researching Pop Culture

I was still on the idea of what would happen if we DID insert a data port into our skulls, and when would this happen? 50 years from now? Maybe 25, who knows? I really do think it will be Apple who develops this or maybe (more likely) Google. Think about it…. Thinking about this hard enough eventually made me laugh quite hard; I thought of the movie Johnny Mnemonic and how long ago that was. The movie was made in 1995 and takes place in the year 2021, and without giving out anything (in case you haven’t YET seen it), Johnny’s (Keanu Reeves) brain capacity for the assignment he is hired to do is roughly 320GB! WTF!? Soon, within the next 6 months, that could be the capacity of my freak’n iPod nano. I really don’t know why I spent so much thought on this today but in the end it made me laugh REALLY hard. I had to share it all with co-workers, which made it even better to laugh about. I know Kenunu was “acting” in Johnny Mnemonic but sometimes I think Keanu Reeves himself has a limited amount of space in his skull. Think about the “Challenging” roles he takes, tons of dialogue…. RRRiiiiggghhhhtttt [in the voice of Doctor Evil].

This was just a thought. What do you think? Waste of a day (mentally)?

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