The Future is Now

I remember talking about holographic storage with Chris, my college roommate, back when a CDR holds 2 or 3 movies encoded in ASF or RM, and your storage fantasy consists of something that can hold gigabytes or even terabytes of data. Pssh... with CDRs rated for 10, 20 years, it'd be quite some time before we're forced to re-archive our old movies in higher density media.

Well, quite some time has passed since then. Nowadays, it's not uncommon to download full, uncompressed images of DVD movies. Those 200MB movies look so... antique. My cellphone probably has higher resolution than those RM-based movies. Anyway, some company came out with portable holographic cards capable of holding 30GB. Looks like we'll be downloading and storing some serious amounts of data in the not so distant future. =)