Modern problems - caused by the staggering cheapness of storage. Without it, you'd be forced to toss stuff out, as with a full basement, and have developed skills for the tossing, by now.
We're all immensely spoiled by the exponential growth of storage matching the exponential growth of the hoarding. (Most of it photos that will never be …
Modern problems - caused by the staggering cheapness of storage. Without it, you'd be forced to toss stuff out, as with a full basement, and have developed skills for the tossing, by now.
We're all immensely spoiled by the exponential growth of storage matching the exponential growth of the hoarding. (Most of it photos that will never be looked at again.)
Much of the recent growth is not really the technology doubling over and over any more - it made storage cheaper to mass-produce it in 10X-Walmart-sized data centres near cheap hydropower, and also, we just spent more on it. (Society is spending more on computing, you just don't see it because you're paying in ad-views, not cash.)
But the hard-drive improvements are slowing, the value of mass-production of servers is nearing max, the money they can extract is flattening. Soon enough, you will be forced to choose between new material and old material, like all previous storage systems. (The book "Bibliophilia" notes the English gentleman, who purchased seven large houses to store his books. When he died, used prices were depressed for years.)
Modern problems - caused by the staggering cheapness of storage. Without it, you'd be forced to toss stuff out, as with a full basement, and have developed skills for the tossing, by now.
We're all immensely spoiled by the exponential growth of storage matching the exponential growth of the hoarding. (Most of it photos that will never be looked at again.)
Much of the recent growth is not really the technology doubling over and over any more - it made storage cheaper to mass-produce it in 10X-Walmart-sized data centres near cheap hydropower, and also, we just spent more on it. (Society is spending more on computing, you just don't see it because you're paying in ad-views, not cash.)
But the hard-drive improvements are slowing, the value of mass-production of servers is nearing max, the money they can extract is flattening. Soon enough, you will be forced to choose between new material and old material, like all previous storage systems. (The book "Bibliophilia" notes the English gentleman, who purchased seven large houses to store his books. When he died, used prices were depressed for years.)