To add a couple of points
Just came across this great piece and it makes a good point in the discussion on so many levels:
http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/when-you-change-the-world-and-no-one-notices/
- maybe in the next 5 years we'll see so many products, based on knowledge, which we had for the past 30 years;
- Likely some of the things that are already discussed and ridiculed will actually become huge shortly.
And a point I missed - if we're close to exhausting the innovation potential of the current generation of technologies - we'll just move to a new paradigm - maybe the Microsoft DNA-like storage (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/dna-storage/) or something else. But just as we replaced the "how we build computers" from Charles Babbage's concept of a mechanical machine, to "vacuum tubes" to "transistors" to "integrated circuits", so will storage reinvent itself.
Boyan @ StorPool Storage
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