Does this Flickr issue raise a problem with the internet generally? Is it a good idea to store anything on line? I don't think I would choose to do it, whether it be documents or photos or anything else really. The other possible problem is electricity supply! Almost everything we rely on these days relies on electricity, even to get our gas supply. My old Mum, as a young woman in WW2, always warned us that in the event of a new countrywide emergency most of the population of the UK will face major difficuluties, no heat for a start, because most houses today depends on electricity for their central heating. After watching the Syrian war unfold over the last few years its easy for me to tell myself, if it can happen there, a similar conflict could possibly happen here. Without electricity......!!!
To date I've bought two apps, both maps, I am very reluctant to buy anything else. In todays capitalist world it suggests to me that everything is built on sand, businesses come and go, takeovers and so on, what can we rely on? It used to be that one selling point for some firms, to help us feel confident about the future, was that they had been in existance for 200 years or more, that although life around us would change they wouldn't. So for me, the idea that the internet world I know today will be the same reliable internet world in 20 years time is, in my view, not possible. So I tell myself, putting something important on the internet is potentially putting me in peril at some later date!
I'm not suggesting that we go back to paper but as a complete amatuer with regard to PCs, I keep all my photos/documents and so on on 2 separate hard disks and I make hard copies of the ones I consider important. I keep nothing on my PC, only the programmes I use.