General Discussion

take that money and develop new data storage techniques that use less energy?

At the accelerating rate of our technological advancements, is it not likely that within a short time we will have new data storage solutions that make our present methods obsolete?

I recall tape drives, 10-inch floppies, and memory cards that packed a whopping 16 bits of storage, all in the last few decades.

Is it not reasonable to assume that we could "invent" our way to better, more efficient data storage in a short time?