I know, I know.
I'm not knockin' it. Just being a little cynical.
Did you ever read Asimov's I Robot books? In one story, the protagonist and his human sidekick travel to a distant planet to investigate a murder. The entire planet has a population (carefully controlled) of 20,000 humans, and 200 million robots.
Anyway, everyone communicates electronically; to be in another person's physical presence is considered almost impossibly vulgar and unclean.
But people still like to meet, go to parties, have dinner together, etc... all done via three-dimensional holography supported by high-bandwidth communications.
I mention this because I keep wondering what people will do not so much with storage capacity but with bandwidth capacity. How long will HDTV last? Conventional TV lasted for what, 50 years? I very much doubt HDTV will last more than 10 or 15. Remember when CD's came out? I thought that was it. Then DVDs came out, only 10 years later or so.
(steely)
See this:
Simpsons swallowed whole by DVD of the future ~ 100 DVDs on a single DVD-size disc....