The other day I was on my usual morning read, Gizmodo, reading about all the cool new gadgets coming out for the Christmas season, till I stumbled upon some interesting news….
As we all know, storage space (hard drives) are getting extremely cheap. I mean you can now buy a 500Gb hard drive for $85. You will probably be able to get the same hard drive next year, this time for half the price. Sweet deal, you would think.
The reality is, according to Google VP, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, he is saying that if this trend continues, and the cost of storage continues to decrease, estimations that somewhere around 2020, all the world’s content will fit inside an iPod, and all the world’s music would sit in your palm as early as 2015…rendering the CD format unnecessary.
Now that you’ve put your eyeballs back in your head and given it a good shake, this is the reality of the world as we know it. Bigger is better, so they say. But what will happen when we reach that point? Will it be more about speed, then? Or will we start to move back to the simple life? I don’t know about you, but for me, a day without gadgets, is like a day without sunshine.
