Increasing computer storage capacity

Society will soon have the first billion-instructions-per-second PCs (equivalent to the supercomputers of a decade ago). In ten years it will be 100 billion instructions per second. In 2000 one gigabyte of storage can be bought for US$ 10. In a decade a terabyte (1,000 Gb) will cost that same amount. That is enough to store 3,000 books or 300 films. It will be possible to develop an on-line library of the world's books (around 100 million) and create archives of the written word. Processing power will be needed to read, summarize and order the information.