Didn't a certain someone allegedly say that 640KB was enough for everyone in the dim and distant past?

You have to bear in mind that the guy's post that prompted this works in research, it may come to nothing, like WinFS did.

But if it does, then its uses on the desktop may not be apparent yet. Back in the days before Xerox came up with the concept of a GUI, telling anyone that in less than half a century, your home PC would use up to 4GB of RAM would have been mind-boggling.