Being unloaded from a Pan Am plane in 1956, believe it or not, is a computer hard drive. It weighed over a ton and could hold–wait for it!–5 megabytes of data. One of my flash drives (also called a thumb drive because they are about the size of a thumb–on a six-year-old) holds 3,200 times as much data and costs, at a guess, one-millionth as much. I imagine that hooking up that behemoth to a computer system required a lot more than just slipping it into a USB port.
Now if only we could get liberals to notice that the world has changed….
