http://betasimplifier.disqus.com/enMon, 02 Oct 2006 16:45:48 -0000http://beta.simplifierlab.com/2006/02/post-1.html#comment-21902417<p>I bet that number has increased.</p>Small Business HostingMon, 02 Oct 2006 16:45:48 -0000http://beta.simplifierlab.com/2006/02/post-1.html#comment-21902416<p>I live at 22615 Commonwealth in Seattle. Been up here before?</p>Mike FlacklesteinThu, 06 Jul 2006 21:01:51 -0000http://beta.simplifierlab.com/2006/02/post-1.html#comment-21902415<p>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!</p><p></p><p></p><p>it's definitely a problem that will need to be analyzed and solved.</p>David WangSat, 25 Feb 2006 18:44:49 -0000http://beta.simplifierlab.com/2006/02/post-1.html#comment-21902414<p>How much math is enough? The pundits must have asked themselves the same question before they arrived at the concept of infinite.</p>AA VCTue, 07 Feb 2006 17:32:50 -0000http://beta.simplifierlab.com/2006/02/post-1.html#comment-21902413<p>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:<br><br><a href="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lloyd/lloyd_print.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lloyd/lloyd_print.html">http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lloyd/lloyd_print.html</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>"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"</p>wanderingstanMon, 06 Feb 2006 05:23:12 -0000http://beta.simplifierlab.com/2006/02/post-1.html#comment-21902412<p>We'll be storing 3d movies soon, that might take up a bit more room, but then we'll just use holographic storage anyway...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Of course there will still be no more room left over after downloading all that porn...</p>- ETFri, 03 Feb 2006 15:21:12 -0000http://beta.simplifierlab.com/2006/02/post-1.html#comment-21902411<p>Nifty. Well, since the difference between 10^18 and 10^21 is a factor of 1000 which is roughly 2^10.... </p><p></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p></p><p><br><br>-Al</p>Al ChangFri, 03 Feb 2006 04:08:33 -0000http://beta.simplifierlab.com/2006/02/post-1.html#comment-21902409<p>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.</p>John LudwigFri, 03 Feb 2006 01:52:30 -0000http://beta.simplifierlab.com/2006/02/post-1.html#comment-21902408<p>Brad, that's a great post.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Definetely worth thinking about.</p>Daniel Nerezov (Check me out oThu, 02 Feb 2006 23:39:36 -0000