email:

we humans are now beginning to have gigabytes and gigabytes of emails over the course of our lifetime. we dont even know how much email a typical person will have over the course of an entire lifetime-- no one that has been born post-introduction of email has had the chance to live out a naturally long life. we are probably looking at on the order of 100GB of email per person per lifetime. this is currently already not particularly manageable on personal laptops without awkward backup scemes (you know you jave one, dont deny it), and no online email service, even google, has storage to accomodate this. the problem of having email that is consistently accessible, that is not bogged down by massive index files which get too big, and that does not require constant manual backups, archiving, etc. and further, email protocols which do not suck (which goes beyond just the storage issue) do not yet exist. we need persistent always on storage plus a well-implemented IMAP protocol. 

music

music is similar. most people are developing music collections that are too big for any one laptop; and in any case, it's utterly ridiculous that there are copies of the same song on everyone's laptops. i alreadyeven cant manage my music, and i dont have very much.  we need a way to access our music independent of where we are, to synch it, and to share it (which of course gets into copyright and fair use but it also an issue of storage and persistence of storING and retrieving.

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