2TB = Lots of Family History

While searching the Internet this morning, I found that one of the largest internal hard drives available (for home use) has capacity for 2 terabytes (TB). My laptop computer currently only has about 39 gigabytes (GB; three orders of magnitude less than a terabyte), of which approximately three are left. Considering I have very little use for this much space, I have thought about why we have so much space available for ordinary use at home. Obvious answers to this question include movie, music and picture storage. But a thought came to me about my own family history. I could be using that storage space for keeping my own genealogy and my own journal and history. What if I did that? What if I used that space to store what I have learned from others about my ancestors and kept it on my computer to help me remember not to make the same mistakes they did? What if I used it to write down my own ideas and experiences so others could benefit from them? I imagine most of the Book of Mormon prophets would have loved to have more “storage space” to write their prophecies and teachings, but because of their small plates they were not able to write as much as they would like. I doubt I could even personally keep up with the technology improvements in storage space, even if I wrote every day of my life. Therefore, I need to be that much more grateful since I have that greater ability.