It gets worse. I keep finding myself astonished that only a few companies are starting to lower prices on 4-gig thumb drives, as they're so old by computing standards that they'll be passé in a year, if they aren't already. Eight gigs, 16 gigs, and 32 gigs are becoming more popular and cheaper. I recently (last few months) upgraded my 2-gig MP3 player to a 16 gig model, and only because I was having a hard time finding a 32 gig MP3 player that wasn't an iPod. I find it adequate to my music needs, though.

My friend Brooke has, in her possession, computer memory that could not have held a single KILObyte. She owns old computers with RAM measured in double-digit MEGAbytes.