The Sony Memory Stick makes me wonder how we will store and transfer data in the future. Palm has a deal with Sony to support the stick and others are surely in the works. Of course Sony has multiple products that use it; one is a picture frame which plays back digital photos and video. Will we all be carrying and exchanging “sticks” with each other? Instead of making mixed tapes (the modern equivalent of the love poem), will guys be handing girls sticks of multimedia? Will I send my parents a stick of photos? More likely I will use the Internet. But where will a music album exist in the future…a place where I access it using a wireless, superhigh bandwidth Internet connection or on my transferable storage stick? How will cost and convenience play a part in determining this? Sony’s positioning this device as the universal storage medium for the future, and they’ve probably learned quite a bit since they released Betamax. So in the future, what will I store on transportable media and what will I just access over the ‘net (no matter where it is physically)? And when something is digital, what is the psychological makeup of its exchange? I want to “give” you this photo. I could point you to a web site, mail you the jpeg, or give you a storage device. If I just want you to see it, anything will work. What if I want you to “have” it? Will having access to something digital replace the concept of owning it?