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This is needless pandering and fear-mongering, akin to the hysteria that inevitably comes with the evolution of technology. For example, the telephone will be the end of society trope that was popular at the turn of the century.

Anyway.

> With Google Drive, your 'docs' are just placeholders pointing to the cloud. You can export them individually to Word or print them to PDF, but it's a manual process, which you will likely only think of when it's too late.

This has been trod to death over the years. Let's do some find-and-replace.

With a Hard Drive, your 'docs' are just placeholders pointing to the platter. You can copy them individually to diskette or print them to hardcopy, but it's a manual process, which you will likely only think of when it's too late.