Here's an interesting juxtaposition of headlines. (The lovely idiot is from UC Berkeley.)

Is Google Too Generous, asks Motley Fool, talking about Google's decision to offer 2 gigabytes of e-mail storage on Gmail.

Hitachi Eyes 1 Terabyte Drives, writes MacWorld, noting new technology the Japanese company says lets it put 4.5 Gigabytes of data on a single centimeter of hard drive.

I'm like, don't the first people read the second paper?

Moore's Law of Storage is rocketing along right now even faster than Moore's other "laws" (as described in The Blankenhorn Effect). Magnetic storage is eliminating the cost of physically maintaining content, any content, with profound implications for everyone.

One implication, I think, is that over time we're going to get over this idea of having to maintain physical control of content, and that is likely to end the copyright wars. What's going on right now with people loading music and movies to their hard drives and optical storage is merely a form of hoarding.

Once people realize that it's time -- time to listen, time to watch -- that's in short supply rather than content there is going to be a big "ah ha" moment in the marketplace.

I think you should take a moment to consider what that means.