Parkinson's Law of Data Data expands to fill the space available for storage. The purchase of more memory encourages the use of more memory-intensive techniques. It has been observed over the last 10 years that the memory usage of evolving systems tends to double roughly once every 18 months. The laws of physics guarantee that memory density increases cannot continue indefinitely, necessitating a future paradigm shift. The demise of Moore's Law has been predicted annually for the past five years.
Every economic era is based on a key abundance and a key scarcity.
It is suggested that the next communication era that bandwidth will be free and transistors relatively scarce. The new computer architecture will not be based on concepts of centralization and decentralization. A few super computers will distribute processing to multiple systems, the most common computer will be the cellular phone with an IP address. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . The University of Chicago Press.