what, you only want to store video looking in one direction with one fixed focus? i'd want to store many times that amount of video if i truly wanted to capture my life.
Al Chang
· 3 years ago
Nifty. Well, since the difference between 10^18 and 10^21 is a factor of 1000 which is roughly 2^10....
If we keep doubling every 18 months, and assuming that i continue to buy my personal share of the global computing infrastructure, I'll be able to do HD quality storage of my entire life, including the time i'm asleep, in about 15 years. Actually, given that roughly half my life is over at this point, call it 13-14 years.
Start companies anticipating bulk video editing or video indexing / filtering applications, lifetime data collection applications. Any resource getting that cheap means we'll use the heck of it and taping/saving/videoing all sorts of (now seemingly) inane things. And I might say that by then we'd be unsatisfied with ONLY an HD version of our lives.
-Al
- ET
· 3 years ago
We'll be storing 3d movies soon, that might take up a bit more room, but then we'll just use holographic storage anyway...
Of course there will still be no more room left over after downloading all that porn...
Stan James
· 3 years ago
It will be interesting to see if capacity can keep doubling at it's current rate: at some point we will hit the hard limits of physics. You might enjoy this article by Seth Lloyd of MIT:
"I have a kilogram of matter confined to the volume of a liter; how many states, how many possible states for matter confined to the volume of a liter can there possibly be? ... The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops. ... A typical state of the ultimate laptop's memory looks like a plasma at a billion degrees Kelvin"
AA VC
· 3 years ago
How much math is enough? The pundits must have asked themselves the same question before they arrived at the concept of infinite.
David Wang
· 3 years ago
i believe i read an article in mit's technology review mentioning this problem as well. they mentioned that at the rate the population is growing, the mb/physical size, and even given technology advances, that we'll still encounter a storage issue because we won't have enough storage space on earth!
it's definitely a problem that will need to be analyzed and solved.
Mike Flacklestein
· 3 years ago
I live at 22615 Commonwealth in Seattle. Been up here before?
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Brad, that's a great post.
Definetely worth thinking about.
what, you only want to store video looking in one direction with one fixed focus? i'd want to store many times that amount of video if i truly wanted to capture my life.
Nifty. Well, since the difference between 10^18 and 10^21 is a factor of 1000 which is roughly 2^10....
If we keep doubling every 18 months, and assuming that i continue to buy my personal share of the global computing infrastructure, I'll be able to do HD quality storage of my entire life, including the time i'm asleep, in about 15 years. Actually, given that roughly half my life is over at this point, call it 13-14 years.
Start companies anticipating bulk video editing or video indexing / filtering applications, lifetime data collection applications. Any resource getting that cheap means we'll use the heck of it and taping/saving/videoing all sorts of (now seemingly) inane things. And I might say that by then we'd be unsatisfied with ONLY an HD version of our lives.
-Al
We'll be storing 3d movies soon, that might take up a bit more room, but then we'll just use holographic storage anyway...
Of course there will still be no more room left over after downloading all that porn...
It will be interesting to see if capacity can keep doubling at it's current rate: at some point we will hit the hard limits of physics. You might enjoy this article by Seth Lloyd of MIT:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lloyd/lloyd_print.html
"I have a kilogram of matter confined to the volume of a liter; how many states, how many possible states for matter confined to the volume of a liter can there possibly be? ... The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops. ... A typical state of the ultimate laptop's memory looks like a plasma at a billion degrees Kelvin"
How much math is enough? The pundits must have asked themselves the same question before they arrived at the concept of infinite.
i believe i read an article in mit's technology review mentioning this problem as well. they mentioned that at the rate the population is growing, the mb/physical size, and even given technology advances, that we'll still encounter a storage issue because we won't have enough storage space on earth!
it's definitely a problem that will need to be analyzed and solved.
I live at 22615 Commonwealth in Seattle. Been up here before?
I bet that number has increased.