Coming to a data center and then desk top near you:
Case Western Reserve University researchers have developed technology aimed at making an optical disc that holds 1 to 2 terabytes of data – the equivalent of 1,000 to 2,000 copies of Encyclopedia Britannica. The entire print collection of the Library of Congress could fit on five to 10 discs.
Only a matter of time before you have the Library of Congress on a single disk on your local computer. All of it.
Questions:
- Can you find useful information about a subject?
- If you find it once, can you find it again?
- If you can find it again, how much work does it take?
- Can you share your trail of discovery or “bread crumbs” with others?
If TB data storage means you can’t find information, doesn’t that mean you are getting dumber, one TB at a time?
Storage density isn’t going to slow down so we had better start working on search/IR.