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onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

“Any time soon” is the thing. Look at the history of hard disk drives. To store 3.75MB in 1957 on a hard disk, a single hard disk was the size of two refrigerators. By the 1980s they were 8 inches (~20cm) big stored 10 MB. Nowadays they are 3.5 inches (~9 cm) big and can store multiple TB.

Technology has accelerated considerably. Even if it takes 20 years, it might still be quicker than the hard disk to home timeline.

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