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by dekhn 763 days ago
One point about storage- it's economically driven. If there was a demand signal (say, the government dedicated a few hundred billion dollars to a single storage systems), hard drive manufacturers could deploy much more storage in a year. I've pointed this out to a number of scientists, but none of them could really think of a way to get the government to spend that much money just to store data without it curing a senator's heart disease.
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> without it curing a senator's heart disease

Obviously I'm not advocating for this, but I'll just link to the Mad TV skit about how the drunk president cured cancer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va71a7pLvy8