Seeking reverse-engineers - Apple II VisiCalc

[Jules Richardson]

Jim Leonard wrote:
> Holger Veit wrote:
>> BlueRay (which I give 2 years until the next technology will be thrown 
>> on the customer obsoleting the format). 
> 
> Don't bet on it.  Blu-Ray is the last consumer-deliverable physical 
> media, which means it is the last consumer archival media.  The entire 
> entertainment industry has seen the writing on the wall and is moving 
> toward digital distribution.  There will not be a successor to Blu-Ray.
> 
> In the future, we won't be burning to pieces of plastic for archiving.

Personally I reckon we'll be dumping it across a network to some remote site; 
in an interconnected society there's no need for the backup to be on local 
media at all. Of course that raises *huge* security issues, but by and large 
people don't seem to care about those if the end result achieves what they 
want. Governments will love us for it, of course :-)

Lots of us already back up across a LAN to a machine (regardless of the 
storage technology behind the scenes), so it's not a big leap to do that to 
some off-site server; it's just that the upstream data rates from the home 
aren't really *quite* there yet.

Yes, the back-end will likely be hard disks - but the end-user's experience 
will just be one of throwing data across a network link.

cheers

Jules