How relevant is knowledge with turbo-powered search engines on our terminals and in our palms? If all that is known is accessible instantaneously in a companion brain - a 3G Pocket PC or such - connected wirelessly to terabytes upon terabytes of cheap storage, what will we use our most valuable storage resource to hold?

Today, the processing power of our brains is increasingly taxed by all of this cheap, accessible, digital storage -- the burden is still largely on us to find and filter amid an ocean of data. Our search tools, based around keywords, are primitive -- a butter knife not a scalpel. We still need to know enough to ask the right questions of the network.

But as information retrieval becomes smarter, our brains' processing power, along with its storage, will increasingly be free to create; further filling the silicon servers.