I believe that future with no personal storage will arrive eventually for better or worse (depending on what you think of big companies having all your data) but I'd predict it's still maybe 15 years away at least. Connection speeds have a lot of catching up to do, especially uploads...can you imagine trying to edit a video with some weaksauce 5mbps write speed?
That being said, it's really only an issue for big media right now. You can have all your bookmarks, contacts, and other small files on the cloud with no noticeable performance penalty or hassle. I've been trying to get the Internet to work that way for me for the past 15 years, all the way back to those hokey FTP programs that could map a network drive for you.
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