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CHAPTER 9: The Future of Home Digital St... > 9.7 Digital Storage in Future Consum... - Pg. 247

The Future of Home Digital Storage 247 9.7 Digital Storage in Future Consumer Electronics As discussed earlier, large and dispersed digital storage capacity in consumer devices will enable many new capabilities as well as drive people to develop technologies that can organize and effectively use such large and fragmented content. It is important to realize that the next 10 years will turn most of those who use consumer electronics into effective creators of digital content, and that the personal content created by these users will greatly exceed the amount of commercial content that will be stored in their homes and anywhere else for that matter. As personal content becomes the majority of digital content, this content will become a big factor in content use. If this personal content is organized and easy to access such as that in a PMA, then this content could provide material that could be used in new entertainment and communications products. A well organized personal memory database would provide material for new capabilities such as the following. · Entertainment such as games or movies could incorporate personal experiences (such as people you have met or places that you have been) to make a very personalized and more gripping experience.