[George W. Bush]

Actually, you could store a 3MP PNG picture file of every woman who has ever lived and barely dent the storage capacity.

But not on the iPhone.

[theFIRMbss]

>Actually, you could store a 3MP PNG picture file of every woman who has ever lived

(Lately I have been
thinking about block storage
in old Forth systems

and wondering if
"file systems" are obsolete.
Today's transfer speeds

are blazingly fast
and the combination of
thumb drives and 'net drives

makes it so easy
to store stuff all chunked up and
distributed that

I'm not sure we need
one big central storage box.
I think now we need

some standardized way
to organize and access
our non-filed storage--

all the stuff we've saved
chunked up in thumbs and the 'net.
Block storage was cool

because programmers
were forced to impose a scheme
of order to it.)