Re: anachronisms?

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:08:29 -0600, Wildepad <noreplies> wrote:

>On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:05:33 GMT, bealoid <signup@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>wrote:
>
>>What devices used in "today's" science fiction will the future people
look 
>>back on and laugh at?
>
>On a near term basis (before information is exchanged/accessed solely
>through brain implants), the very concept of ****table information
>storage might become an anachronism -- with improvements in
>transmission speeds and compression, it could usually be faster to
>download what you want than to find and insert any type of storage
>media.

But it's always nice to have a backup.  Not to mention a place to keep
your data where it won't be hacked.