24 Jun
2002
24 Jun
'02
12:45 a.m.
Steve, Not arguing, but the hardware cost curve for storage has a shorter halving time than the cost curve for CPU (Moore's Law) and the corresponding halving time for bandwidth is shorter still. If that relationship holds up over a period of years, today's tradeoffs between cache, re-computation, and anticipatory transmission would presumably change in the direction the economics dictates. And of course, if I really care that a particular piece of data is non-discoverable I either have to encrypt it, never transmit it, or go on one whopping search mission. Or so I think. Does the world look different from your vantage? --dan