Cost of storing all human audio-visual experiences
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Re: Cost of storing all human audio-visual experiences
#2It's funny, because in 1000 years, this is an anthropologists dream come true (assuming the storage can be preserved that long by eventually copying to a less volatile medium).
Is it worth sacrificing our privacy now, so that their perfect glimpse of us in "the stupid ages" teaches them enough to learn from all the mistakes we keep repeating?
Re: Cost of storing all human audio-visual experiences
#3It'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 ;)
Re: Cost of storing all human audio-visual experiences
#4It'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…
> 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...
Re: Cost of storing all human audio-visual experiences
#5It's funny, because in 1000 years, this is an anthropologists dream come true (assuming the storage can be preserved that long by eventually copying to a less volatile medium). Is it worth sacrificing our privacy now, so that their perfect glimpse of us in "the stupid ages" teaches them enough to learn from all the mistakes we keep repeating?
And as long as it doesn't have DRM (although I assume they'll be able to break it easily).
Re: Cost of storing all human audio-visual experiences
#6It's funny, because in 1000 years, this is an anthropologists dream come true (assuming the storage can be preserved that long by eventually copying to a less volatile medium). Is it worth sacrificing our privacy now, so that their perfect glimpse of us in "the stupid ages" teaches them enough to learn from all the mistakes we keep repeating?
Have we learnt from the middle ages, or do we find the circumstances too different from now to draw authoritative conclusions?
(honest question)
Re: Cost of storing all human audio-visual experiences
#7I think a typical DVD is more like 4.5 Mbps...
Re: Cost of storing all human audio-visual experiences
#8It'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…
> 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...
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.
Re: Cost of storing all human audio-visual experiences
#9It's funny, because in 1000 years, this is an anthropologists dream come true (assuming the storage can be preserved that long by eventually copying to a less volatile medium). Is it worth sacrificing our privacy now, so that their perfect glimpse of us in "the stupid ages" teaches them enough to learn from all the mistakes we keep repeating?
Have we learnt from the middle ages, or do we find the circumstances too different from now to draw authoritative conclusions? (honest question)
Yes I think in some regards we definitely have - like taking science as fact rather than religion as fact - is mostly the status quo. That certainly wasnt the case 1000 years ago.
Re: Cost of storing all human audio-visual experiences
#10Once whatever successor to Google Glass becomes ubiquitous, I can see this becoming a reality.
This is an advertising research agency's wet dream come true, unfortunately.