The Power of Waste: Managing Technology for Abundance, Not Scarcity

Did you ever wonder, when you were told to spend saving storage space by finding and deleting old files, whether it was worth your time? (It isn't.)

"When scarce resources become abundant, smart people treat them differently, exploiting them rather than conserving them. It feels wrong, but done right it can change the world."

This is a thought-provoking piece from Wired magazine and well worth the time to read it.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/mf_freer