Google: All Content In This World Will Soon Be in Your iPod
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, a senior executive at Google has predicted that around 2020, all content in the world would easily fit inside an iPod.
That’s because the cost of storage has dropped by a factor of 3.6 million since 1982 and it continues to decrease.
A similar prediction was made by another Google executive last year when he said that in the coming decade, iPods will be capable of storing all the music and videos ever produced.
Interesting but if these Google-iPod predictions happen to come true, we would definitely need something like a Google Mini Search Appliance for our Apple iPods.
Trivia: The max storage capacity in iPods is currently 160 GB good enough for storing upto 200 hours of video but their battery will drain after 7 hours of playback.
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yep the batteries are the biggest problem with ipods…hope they do something to it as they do for storage capacities…cheers,Rajesh
I guess, it will give the FM channels guys a run for their money.
It’s funny they’ve been making predictions like that for decades, all the books in the world would fit on a single DVD etc etc. None of it’s true of course. There may come a point soon at which we can store all the data that currently exists in the world today on a single device. But, who knows what extra data will exist by 2020 we might have found a way to extract all the data from every living cell across the whoe biosphere by then, or quantum information about each grain of sand, suddenly a few terabytes or even a couple of petabytes will look very small indeed.
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