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it · 07-14-2015, 05:05 PM

Both are right...

The technology behind hard drives will very likely continue to evolve, whether on devices or servers ("the cloud" for when you are high and/or marketing).

The situation where you'd need an intermediary storage device rather then simply communicating the information from the source to he goal... That story does kind of end, as long as the internet infrastructure is maintainable, especially now when online security methods can actually make information more secure then a physically held storage device.

I do think we should keep a note here: The internet is infrastructure.
This is not "technological improvements" in the simple sense of figuring how to do things and being able to do it as long as you have the knowledge kept, it's an expensive (estimated at 196 billion USD a year) global endeavor, which relies on a very fragile ecosystem of the global economy, industry, politics, etc. Which IMO puts the sustainability of it through the centuries into question.

It's also very local... To earth. I think it would be interesting to see how the internet adapts to space. Space tourism is in it's infancy and so far it's close enough to always be in range, but it should create some interesting situations in the long term, which might actually require a return for some sort of physical data transfer devices until the infrastructure is set, and even once you do have local infrastructure elsewhere... How do they communicate? The 1st colony on mars wants to poke their earthbound friends on facebook. What do you do?

07-14-2015, 05:05 PM	#4
it Banned Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 772	Both are right... The technology behind hard drives will very likely continue to evolve, whether on devices or servers ("the cloud" for when you are high and/or marketing). The situation where you'd need an intermediary storage device rather then simply communicating the information from the source to he goal... That story does kind of end, as long as the internet infrastructure is maintainable, especially now when online security methods can actually make information more secure then a physically held storage device. I do think we should keep a note here: The internet is infrastructure. This is not "technological improvements" in the simple sense of figuring how to do things and being able to do it as long as you have the knowledge kept, it's an expensive (estimated at 196 billion USD a year) global endeavor, which relies on a very fragile ecosystem of the global economy, industry, politics, etc. Which IMO puts the sustainability of it through the centuries into question. It's also very local... To earth. I think it would be interesting to see how the internet adapts to space. Space tourism is in it's infancy and so far it's close enough to always be in range, but it should create some interesting situations in the long term, which might actually require a return for some sort of physical data transfer devices until the infrastructure is set, and even once you do have local infrastructure elsewhere... How do they communicate? The 1st colony on mars wants to poke their earthbound friends on facebook. What do you do? Last edited by it; 07-14-2015 at 05:28 PM.