Reading "..combining five terabytes of image data.." and "Figure 1. The TerraServer hardware" while looking at the portable 2TB external HDD sitting on my desk... how technology advances rapidly. Makes me wonder how (storage) technology can be in 10-15 years.
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Yet our smartphones can't seem to get over 64GB limit. Personally, I'm afraid that the cloud will effectively slow-down the progress in the storage space, at least in the consumer portion of it.
SD cards are available with up to 256GB of storage. They just cost $400 or so[0], so I don't think enough people see the value of paying for that much storage in a phone.
[0]http://www.amazon.com/Lexar-Professional-256GB-Memory-LSD256...
What about the phones that come without sd card support?
The flash memory chips used in phones are essentially the same as those used in SD cards, and phones often use SDIO for internal communication. The SD card is just a point of reference for the cost and availablity of flash memory unbundled from a phone.
There's space inside for more storage in most phones. 64GB is just a point where the number of people who would actually use that amount of space rapidly diminishes.