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Parkinson's Law of Data
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prov. Data expands to fill the space available for storage ; buying more
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memory encourages the use of more memory-intensive techniques. (The original
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1958 Parkinson's Law described the structural tendency of bureaucracies to
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make work for themselves.) It has been observed since the mid-1980s that the
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memory usage of evolving systems tends to double roughly once every 18
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months. Fortunately, memory density available for constant dollars also
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tends to about double once every 18 months (see Moore's Law );
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unfortunately, the laws of physics guarantee that the latter cannot continue
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indefinitely.
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