I saw this on Crucial Memory's Facebook page, and thought all of you'd get a kick out of it.
That's a 1956 IBM 305 RAMAC Hard Disk Drive with 5 MB of storage - weighed in at over 1 ton. Annual lease cost was about $35,000.
Just a week ago, I got a 16GB flash drive from NewEgg for $25 plus shipping. That's over 3,000 times the storage for 1/1,400th the price and at 1/16,000th the weight (assuming a flash drive weighs 2 ounces).
If that's the progress we've made in 55 years, I can't wait to see what's out in another 55 years!