On a sunny day (Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:42:57 -0700) it happened John Larkin wrote in :
The math, error correction needs will increase faster than memory can be added at some point. Also see the paper about multiple bit errors next to each other and latchup effects.
For example I wrote a DVB-S encoder, exactly following the specs, all about error correction, see the C source.
That is the point. 'My Xpad has 128 GB, more than your Ypad' And now its full of pictures of the cat.
Well, I have seen kids walk past the house chasing Pokemon... Dangerous, not looking at traffic at all. Here there is now a high fine for using your cellphone non-handsfree while driving. I had a discussion with a truck driver a while back, he says he cannot live without his Android, if he has to pick up something he shows it to his boss via the phone and asks what to do with it. At THAT point a robot becomes more efficient, self driving truck.... No more brain required.
I am not against more memory etc, but hey, get a life. Takes me month to fill the SDcard of my Canon camera, and I take many pictures.
I know you wrote embedded code and simple multitaskers too, how many kB did we use back then? How may kB did it take me to write an auto-pilot for my drone? It ALL fits in a PIC 18F14K22 (18 kB? plenty space left). Data on a 32 MB SDcard also plenty space left.
Its a run-away thing the memory use. Driven by competition. How many characters does Twitter allow??? Now they want to increase it. Enough to shake the world as it is really. Imagine somebody chatting 256 GB .... tweets.