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October 28, 2011
Strange But True!
Q. In the future, how will we decide which information to record and keep and which to discard?
A. Imagine carrying in your pocket all the movies ever recorded by the human race, poses Edward Felten in Scientific American magazine. With the cost of memory dropping exponentially, this will be possible by the end of the decade.
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