There's this longstanding humorous thought/idea that I've preserved with one of my best friends that rationalizes the existence of "memory inflation." Very similar to the way the value of currency bomb-dropped during the historical inflation, it seems all too likely that at some point, if some chaotic thread of chance permitted it, the memory that we use to store information on hard drives in all their suits a' color (laptops, iPods, phones, game consoles, etc.) could very well go into a similar inflationary cycle, where massive amounts of disc storage are worth virtually nothing. I'm no economist, and I do believe that was my least favorite class in college so far, so this could all be flawed logic. But when I examine all of the gadgets I'm exposed to on a daily basis, I see higher and higher storage amounts that are selling for a portion of what that same storage amount cost even a year ago. My strongest example of that is with iPods. I do believe that the only model of iPod classics for sale now are the 120 GB model, which sells at a flat rate of $300. Before, they used to offer 80 GB models for $300 and 120 GB for $400 (I think), and now it's all just the same 120 GB for everybody. I'll take the same concept and apply it to external hard drives too. It just seems like the storage space goes up and up as our technology advances.
Could it be possible that memory storage could become too plentiful, and eventually lead to such disarray experienced during inflation? Or am I just an idiot that doesn't care to factor in the million other variables in this formula?
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