25 ways IT will morph in the next 25 years

[EmptyTimCup]

or at your wife's finger tips .......

"Honey did you take out the trash?"

"When did you tell me that ... you never said the trash needed to go out ..."

(VCR Rewind Noise)

"Yeah I did you lazy bastard, here it is right here .... (life replays @ this Point)"

or the Gobberment subpoenaing your life recording .......

25 ways IT will morph in the next 25 years


10. Storage will be cheap enough that you can record every minute of your life.

By the year 2029, $100 will purchase 11 petabytes - that's 10 to the15th power -- of storage, predicts Cisco's Evans. "You could record every second of your entire life in Blu-Ray quality," he adds.

Telcordia's Rusinkiewicz says a few terabytes of storage on a handheld device "is enough to store the whole history of the life of a person, including all the movies you've ever seen, all the music you've ever heard, and all the photos you've ever taken."

Hinting at this future ability to record your entire life is a project called "The Birth of a Word,'' where MIT researcher Deb Roy began video taping every waking moment of his newborn son's life to study how he learned to speak.

"Imagine if you could record your life. Everything you said. Everything you did, available in a perfect memory store at your finger tips," Roy explained at a talk at the TED Conference. "So you could go back and find memorable moments and relive them or sift through traces of time and discover patterns in your own life that previously had gone undiscovered."~~