Infographic: the compleat and astounding history of storage

Geekologie's superb "Evolution of Storage" infographic traces the history of data, music and photo storage from the wax cylinder to the 2TB hard drive. I think I'll print this out and hang it on the wall of my office, for the same reason poets kept skulls on their writing desks*: "this too shall pass, all is hubris and folly, the future rushes up upon you."

Evolution of Storage

Incidentally, why is a raven like a writing-desk? Because Poe wrote on both of them.