I've this story floating around for a couple of weeks now about how the world is going to run out of storage space. Am I the only one who finds this supposed crisis to be a little hard to believe? When I run out of room on one of my drives, I figure out what to delete. Usually old and unneccessary data gets the boot. Is it so hard to believe that the world at large won't simply do the same? Albeit on a grander scale. Even better, we may become more efficient in what we decide to store in the first place, imagine that.
I don't think that we're going to end up destroying ourselves with our excess data but I think it makes a good case for centralized data storage. If you could hold all of your personal data in one place you wouldn't have to copy it to each computer, or email it to yourself every day or so. Just finding ways to not have to copy everything all the time would solve any problem there may be.