Resumen
The article focuses on innovative, inexpensive, efficient and increasingly compact storage technologies promise practically unlimited capacity and instant access to data anytime, anywhere. It focuses on the extraordinary ultra-high-density storage technologies emerging today and their often-invisible contribution to the future of distributed information networks and appliances. Digital data storage is the lifeline of the information revolution. Digital displays, fast communication systems, large storage repositories and powerful processors are poised to further diminish the dependence on traditional physical media, most notably paper and point the way towards vast amounts of onboard and readily available data and access from practically any electronic device and appliance by practically any computer user or consumer worldwide. Computers, automobiles, electronic consumer devices, aircraft, boats, all kinds of engines and practically any electronic device or appliance require local data storage to enable them to carry out crucial processor functions.