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What will happen a few years down the road?

Probably stacks of load balanced Linux servers the way things were going. 4GB sounds like a game changer.

I hope as novacadian says that they split the chain into time chunks and relegate older data to less active nodes. Otherwise, yes it will get ridiculously big, and everyone runs it pointlessly with it never being used...

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