Uncertainty…
Somebody said to me recently ‘life is full of uncertainties…’
What is uncertainty? It is debated over by many and used in subtly different ways in physics, philosophy, statistics, economics, finance, insurance, psychology, sociology, engineering, and information science. (Yawn)
Let’s keep it simple and just look at risk: a state of uncertainty where some possible outcomes have an undesired effect or significant loss.
I’m sure you don’t like those sorts of outcomes!
But how many of us have been hit by just that sort of uncertainty? And what can we reasonably do about it, to reduce or possibly even completely remove it?
Who would have thought that the White House and the Pentagon would have to be evacuated because of an earthquake? Followed by Hurricane Irene, the first to hit the state of New Jersey in USA since 1903, truly a once in a lifetime event unless you happen to be 108 years old!
How would you have felt if you had needed to exit Libya in a hurry, with no time to pack and forced to leave everything behind as happened to many?
Or if you had been caught up in riots in London which hit almost everybody totally unaware; especially ghastly for people living in flats which were torched and everything was lost?
What if you had been on holiday and on the last day you had your laptop stolen with your university dissertation on it? As one person wrote about his daughter who luckily had her laptop with her whilst her friends lost theirs: “Can you imagine how she would have felt IF HER LAPTOP HAD BEEN STOLEN? No chance of completing her re-sit and a year of her university course and career down the drain!” Career down the drain – stark words!
And just this weekend Richard Branson told us in the Sunday Times how he thought everything was backed up but ‘it turned up the backup was also in the house’ which burnt down to nothing. ‘I’d got a long way into writing my autobiography and it’s lost. Fifteeen years of notebooks went and photographs and so on.’
Sorry to be a ‘doom monger’ but uncertainty is all around us.
Not so much we can do about hurricanes or riots or thieves or fires …
But looking after information so you don’t lose it, is something you can do. It’s what myTsafe is all about. Making the outcome of uncertainty totally different.
Which brings me to the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. Are you going? Just think what a hassle, and probably worse, if your tickets, or your passport or other vital information like names and addresses ‘disappeared’ for some reason? It’s not too late to take action. And unlike so many others myTsafe is mighty safe. Go on take a look, have a try!
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