The speed with which the world continues to advance is truly amazing. Not many years ago there was no such thing as a terabyte, during that time a gigabyte was viewed as being very large. Computers took up entire rooms and had very little storage space in comparison to what exists now. Now a new thumb drive has been revealed that has a terabyte capacity. It is now possible to carry around a ridiculous amount of data on a simple key chain. Technology is continuously getting bigger, in terms of storage, and faster, but at the same time smaller and more compact. It is interesting to see how the world is changing, and how the ease with which data is accessed and transported is affecting those changes. In just a few short years, people might be laughing that a terabyte was ever viewed as a lot of space on a thumb drive.
http://www.fastcompany.com/3004591/kingston-reveals-1tb-thumbdrive
Yep -- just like we're laughing about vacuum tubes and Windows 3.1
ReplyDeleteI chuckle every time I hear phrases like "We'll will never need more space than...." If the space is there, somebody is going to use it.
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