As I type this, I am continuing to put my massive CD collection on my computer. I have a 120GB hard drive that is nearly full of music. I am going to have to get a bigger hard drive.
What will the future bring? Within 10 years, it will be normal to have a 600TB (terrabyte) hard drive. Yet people will be filling them up with all their movies and video, etc. We will eventually need even bigger hard drives.
Twenty-five years from now, hard drives will be made from organic material. People will be able to fit the Library of Congress on a dime-sized "hard drive" on their wristwatches, with which they will be able to call up pretty much any piece of information they could ever need as well as every song and movie ever recorded or filmed. But that still won't be enough.
When will it end? It will never end. Technology will continue to advance at an ever-increasing pace.
If any one of us was transported back in time to 100 years ago - the year 1903 - we will scarcely recognize that world. A world that will seem absolutely primitive to us.
But the difference between 1903 and 2003 will be nothing like the difference between 2003 and 2103.
Some of us today might even be alive to see 2103 thanks to advances in medical science that will allow some of us lucky ones to to live to be 150 years old.