Progress in images

As MSN announce their images partnership, Yahoo declare 1.5 billion images. Google already said it had passed the billion mark.

This is great stuff, and well done everyone. At the same time, 1.5 billion sounds like the kind of number we will look back on in 5 years and say wow, that was small. Like my Spectrum with 48k of memory. However, you can see that maybe one day we will get all human knowledge, at least what is written or "graphicalized" down. How much will that be? There is a chart somewhere that says how many Gb are in the web, in printed form, in the dark web, in TV, etc (when I remember where I saw it, I will link to it). However many terabytes it is, even if we take individual frames from movies, and whatever other ways of dissecting data that you can think of, one day it will all be "online". Then we will just have to keep up with onlining whatever new stuff we produce - I suspect there is one of those correlations where what we produce now in one year is more than the entire amount produced since the dawn of time, but it will still be manageable. And if storage continues to increase, one day we will be able to put all human-created content onto a memory card, and stick it into the latest portable device. How will that make us feel?