Uses for such a thing may wane, but they won’t disappear. Some kind of small, portable solid-state storage that plugs into USBvX.X will always be around. Or perhaps a wireless version will evolve if it can somehow be effortlessly charged wirelessly.

In fact, who’s to say something of that nature mightn’t take over? Everybody walking around with a library in their pinkie ring.

Come to think of it, the final form has already begun to be locked in – SD cards in smartphones.

IMO your platitude is an empty cliche.

But that is to support my pocket library, which is something of an obsession. Purchased in quantity the 4 GB drives are now cheap enough to give away if there is good reason and an optical disc won’t do. As optical drives aren’t built in on some of the growing form factors for personal computers it may soon make more sense than mass produced DVDs, even if the price is higher.

Plus, NFC has a really short range on it (annoyingly so if you need to stay connected for more than a few seconds)— that’s where the N in the acronym comes form.

Store silicon computer data on a key with material that scrambles your built in organic computer.

I don’t even want to know what a financial institution (wasn’t) thinking to encourage prospective customers to automatically execute untrusted web payloads…

And I doubt flash drives or the like will ever be completely replaced by wireless; it’s, you know, storage.

Given how digital stuff can virtually disappear in nested folders or under nondescript filenames, maybe some folks will take to physically organising some of their content in such containers?

Here’s a cute concept-design for tear-off, disposable flash-drives

That’s awesome! I can’t wait…

from Art Lebedev

…oh. I guess I’ll have to wait. (forever)