Moore's Law of Storage - its no joke.

Like many others I too was a little confused by the timing of Google's recent announcement that they were pumping up Gmail storage to an amazing 2 Gigabytes. Was it an April fool? Of course it came on the anniversary of the launch of GMail which was also thought by many to be a prank. But it was real and sure enough the new 2 Gigabyte limit is also real. Wonderful.

For similar reasons as cited by Jason Calcanis of Weblogs Inc. we have moved our 'corporate' email completely to Gmail. It has had an extraordinarily positive effect on our productivity.

Dana Blankenhorn however made the sharpest observation that I have read in regard to the Gmail news an in relation to Moore's Law as applied to storage in general -

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've just had that "ah ha" moment Dana - thank you for inspiring it.