But if you continue a chat it can remember what it said earlier.

Hence the (apparent) need for data centers the size of Nebraska, to include space, the moon, and under the oceans as well.

We will save every conversation, every “like” on Facebook, every image ever posted to Instagram, each post on the Motley Fool and Shrewdm and every other morsel on every website everywhere. All the trivia in your emails, every link you have ever clicked, and each detail of your life forever (including dead persons) like your high school alums, you pet’s names, passwords from 29 years ago, that recipe you thought about making but never did…

And will do so for all 300 million USians, Europeans, and Chinese and Japanese and other assorted flavors of humanity as will be reached by the ever expanding borg memory. Billions upon billions of keystrokes, multiplying geometrically day upon day, forever.

I am guilty of it too. Every time I have run out of space on a hard drive (dating myself there) I don’t “clean up”, I just buy another one. Bigger, better, bound to last a lifetime, and then two years later it’s full and I buy yet another, and another, and another forever, do dah, do dah.

I am sure there are route plans I made on MapQuest in 1997 somewhere in digital bits, songs uploaded that no one has ever listened to, and YouTube videos still available that explain how to reboot your PC if Windows 95 crashes.

Somebody could make a fortune if instead of designing a new, more robust chip, they created something to clean out the dead wood from all of those oversized, lumbering, ridiculous buildings and bring this out-of-control circus back to a more realistic plane.

(I suspect a really good recession would work, but that’s not what I was hoping for.)