[Udo]

It's interesting to think about what these factors actually mean. The perception of what's "good" quality will continue to shift hugely. Life expectancy, hopefully, will go up. Hard drive prices actually haven't come down again after the floods, so I'm guessing they'll stay artificially inflated for a long time - especially considering storage density won't increase in the coming years as we seem to hit a wall there as well.

So that's 60€ or $60 per TB for the foreseeable future. Let's say we're using a well compressed H264 stream with a 500 MB per hour data rate for 16 waking hours per day => 3 TB or 180 USD per year and person. Plus electricity and, realistically speaking, bandwidth costs.

Still, it would be nice to have a searchable experience database like that. Ideally I'd want that with a cybernetic eye ;)

[joering2]

> especially considering storage density won't increase in the coming years as we seem to hit a wall there as well

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2013/jul/13_13...

[Udo]

There is any number of similar articles you could have linked to. However, there always seems to be a huge disparity between sensationalistic storage innovation announcements and what's actually ending up on the market.

Also, just snidely posting a link that a good number of people here already know without taking the time to write an actual comment seems kind of lazy.

[Alucks]

how exactly does a well compressed H264 stream at 500 MB per hour work out to 3 TB a year? Wouldn't a years worth of video and audio come closer to thousands of terabytes?

[stonemetal]

He assumes you only record waking hours and that you are awake 16hrs a day so:

16 * 365 = 5840hrs * 0.5GB per hour = 2920 GB or 2.9 TB. Add another 8GB for a leap year it still doesn't get you over 3TB.