Parkinson's Law of Data
prov. "Data expands to fill the space
available for storage"; buying more memory encourages the use of
more memory-intensive techniques. It has been observed over the
last 10 years that the memory usage of evolving systems tends to
double roughly once every 18 months. Fortunately, memory density
available for constant dollars tends to double about once every
12 months (see
Moore's Law); unfortunately, the laws of
physics guarantee that the latter cannot continue indefinitely.
