TECNOSFERA
Your Permanent Record: Microsoft CTO David Vaskevitch explains why tons and tons of memory will serve us well. [...]
In a fully realized digital memory management system, your camera will come with a self-setting clock, a built-in GPS locator, and perhaps 100 gigs of flash memory. Every picture or video snippet that you shoot will be embedded with date and location information. Your standard OS will include sophisticated face-matching software. Your computer will be your shoe box - one with a storage capacity approaching the largest paper-and-ink archive on earth. And ferreting out every picture of Granny at your daughter's graduation will become a matter of simply setting a few parameters in Photo Find and pressing Return.
We'll have our digital memory managers by the decade's end.