Out of curiosity I compress a 3 hour lecture one time to 70 MB and was totally surprised by how watchable it still was. It got me wondering, out of that 10 GB u

Out of curiosity I compress a 3 hour lecture one time to 70 MB and was totally surprised by how watchable it still was. It got me wondering, out of that 10 GB ultra uber HD XXL video there is about 50 MB that you must have, 100-200 MB of data that would be really useful but the rest quickly drops to "nice to have but not at all necessary". (my numbers are mostly imaginary) I strongly think that packaging and delivery methods should be specifically designed for the goods being shipped. (Sand is not glass) Poor TV and radio signals use to gradually degrade the picture and audio. Even with partial reception you could still figure out useful things like if your city was going to get bombed. Today on p2p you get a multi GB blob of data with which you cant do anything until you got all of it. Streaming will only give you the beginning which could be worse than not watching something. But if we take say 100 fold and do 70 GB of reads for a 700 MB video... (I guess a few more numbers here and below) From the 80's to 90's memory went up from 16 kb to 1 MB. From 90's - 2000 from 1 MB to 512 MB. From 2000 to 2010: 512 MB to 48 GB. 2020, 128 GB? (rather disappointing compared to the previous jump) Is 512 GB a reasonable guess for 2030? I don't think we will see the 32 000 fold increase from 1980-2000 but 2 or 4 times seems reasonable? 70 GB of reads wouldn't be such a big deal. Monitors will grow of course but houses are getting smaller. We can do all 4 walls, then the ceiling and even the floor, increase frame rate and resolution but it has to stop eventually. (haha)