Huge drivespace Re: computing budgeting (fwd)

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From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 19:54:56 PDT

Does anyone think that in the near future, the coming of multi-terabyte
cheap hard drives will lead to any new business models? Will shipping
hard drives full of data to people replace the Internet because last mile
bandwidth may not keep up? I'm thinking by 2004? What would you do with
10TB 3.5" drives that cost $500 each?

New material shows major advance in magnetoresistance and other properties:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000905/nj_nec_res.html 

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Brian Atkins
Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/

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