Amidst all of the hype about Google Gears, something occurred to me - the thing that makes this possible is the explosion of storage space. Not so very long ago, getting more than a few gigabytes of storage was very expensive. Now? Between inexpensive USB drives and cloud storage, there are no real limits anymore. A quick count of the USB drives in my office shows just under a terabyte of storage, for instance.

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