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  DeepDarkSky, 29 Sep 2004 @ 5:21am

  
  

  Making the technology promises pay

  Quite frankly, it is this kind of technology that tells me that we need to slow down our capability/appetite to use more and more storage space and start to make good on the promises of digital technology. By this, I mean using less resources to store information. For example, the promise of ebooks was supposed to reduce the number of paper books being printed. Instead, the reverse happened. As soon as we have bigger hard drives, as soon as we have VCDs, we come up with DVDs and reasons to continue use up more space. I have a couple thousand CDDVDs, representing a lot of plastic with noxious chemicals that in a couple of years will be obsolete, and by some measures, useless because it will have deteriorated to the point that the data will be lost. I'd love to have a "small" binder of a few discs to hold all of the stuff I've saved. When will the level of data hunger level off so we can realize the promise?

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  Permanent4, 29 Sep 2004 @ 7:09am

  
  

  Between 2010 and 2015? They won't make it.

  Didn't the gang at Optware say they can get their 200GB Holographic Versatile Discs in consumer hands by 2007? (meaning people could afford them in 2008, of course...) And didn't they also say that they're working toward a terabyte on one disc before 2010?

  Then again, considering that Blu-Ray is at least two years from critical mass, maybe this news is just another one of those technological breakthroughs that we'll report on now and never actually see. Thank you, drive through...

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