The rate of advanceing technology will favour solid state medium in the future. Just not next generation. Originally data was stored on punch cards, then magnetic strip, future is now moving towards flash. Though in the end flash may not be the one to do it.
Perosonally I have believed for 20 years that man made crystal storage will be the future. each cyrstal(square, circle..) will have thousands of layers. Where each layer can be be set to refelctive or not. depending on the light colour bounced back will determine the data value. Since this wil be read with lasers it will be fast. Of course i'm refering to non motion based storage. Now we have research into holographic prism storage technology. :)
In the mean time we will have flash disk drives replace our HDD and eventually have PRISM storage to replace large scale HDD data storage.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
