Comments on: The Never Ending Breakthrough in Storage

By: david

david — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:37:45 +0000

Joy-
First, thank you for you kind words. Second, so glad to have such intelligent readers. You have hit on a couple of irresolvable issues. The coming medical breakthroughs will be as much about ethics as medicine. Also, there is a shift going on – hence the name of my book – that has within it the capacity to actual lift up our collective consciousness by the 2020s.
I advise and speak to 100s of CEOs and they ask the same thing, how do we keep up. That is why I launched my FREE monthly newsletter – subscribe above – and will soon launch my semi-annual Trend Report for a subscription fee. Both will bring it all together as much as possible.

Again, thanks for your comment, it obviously provoked me!
David

By: Joy Johnson

Joy Johnson — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:58:38 +0000

I just discovered you and I love your stuff. So, yes, we can store this information in ever shrinking spaces but how do we assimilate it? The capacity of the human brain, eyes, ears, and other “input devices” is not increasing at all. I have exactly 23 unread and partially read books on my desk at this moment and still only 24 hours in each of the seven days of my week. The next boundary on which there must be movement is the human one. We’re almost back to the idea that employees are promoted to the level of their incompetency. Humans develop technology, and have done so rapidly, but that may be slowed or limited as we reach the thresholds of our own capability. Development is driven by profits and at the point where technology isn’t delivering greater benefits or greater profits, isn’t that development going to slow down until our abilities move ahead? Cars go faster but the sign says “65″. The answer of course is biotech, the marriage of humanity and technology, but ethical concerns may still that for years. In the meantime science will continue to invent simply for science’s sake. Eventually Ray Kurzweil’s man-chines will catch up.

By: Lynn Hazan

Lynn Hazan — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:44:53 +0000

The next question will be how to access the older technology. Each new innovation makes our current technology either obsolete or incompatible. True, we’ll have fewer physical things since more will be stored. What will we do with all the electronic garbage?

By: Leandra

Leandra — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:19:16 +0000

It’s quite remarkable how rapidly all of these advances have occurred. The idea of digitizing everything was initially terrifying for me. “It’s such flimsy technology,” “anything can happen,” much like it could with hard copies of data. In actuality, digital copies are much easier to reproduce and store.

This is an exciting breakthrough. I hope we’re able to advance other critical technological issues with similar rapidity.