After posting yesterday on the Information Haze; I came across these guys who work for Microsoft and and have a book coming out in September.
This sort of project is a fascinating glimpse as to what is coming in the future and the implications it has for the storage requirements in the future; if you read their 2006 paper, they estimate to store an 83 year life it will take about 200,000 GB so 200 Tb. And that is conservative I suspect.
But more interesting is both impact it has had on them and I found it especially interesting the feelings of loss which were generated by the loss of a hard-drive resulting in 4 months worth of visited web-pages being deleted.
If you are saving your life to the cloud; I guess, you better have a back-up.
