DAVID VASKEVITCH wants your memories. No, not the RAM chips from your computer, but the ones in your head, whose physical manifestations you spend a lifetime archiving or else leaving to rot in the attic. Love letters, diaries, books, music, sound recordings, emails, lecture notes, movies, photos or camcorder footage – Vaskevitch foresees computer hard drives becoming so vast, so fast, that we will be able to store a lifetime’s worth of all these things on a single laptop.
These days, 200-gigabyte disc drives can be bought for well under £200. Four years from now drives of 1000 gigabytes (a terabyte)…
