I am studying the MSc of IT programme in Liverpool University. This week we discussed how the limitless nonvolatile memory will affect the future of world.
Below is the discussion summary of what I wrote to forum wtoday:
Hi All,
Super large but cheap storage device is not a dream in the coming future, but to keep the stored data organized is also the necessary thing we have to bear in mind. I think the problem is not how large of the storage capacity, it is because we misuse the large storage device, and the lack of softwares to help organize the large amount of documents, photos or binary files.
Vee mentioned a key point of these large amount of documents or images - metadata. Everyone knows the concept of web 2.0. It is a popular marketing phrase we can see in the Internet. If we can't organize data well, even 10MB data we could mess it up. Web 2.0 emphasize the interaction among Internet users, people contribute everything into many kinds of web 2.0 model web site, e.g. Del.icio.us, Flicker. Everytime you bookmark or upload something, you have to give metadata to your documents or photos, thus the sofrware, might be a search engine or something like that, behind the user interface can start to analyze the new uploaded document, and associate these data by many kinds of algorism. I would say that the 20th century is the era of data collecting century; and the 21th century is the era of data manipulating. So many ERP systems were built in the last century, these data are collected large enough to start predicting trends, analyzing behavior or something else. Thus who owns the most powerful search engine or analyzing algorism, who will lead the business of 21th century. So a stong back bone hardware to support these large raw data or results is the same important.
A reliable, fast, large, and reasonable price sotrage device is the foundation to support the everything above make make true in the future.
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