He mentioned the future cloud service of scenery. That would save us a lot of disk space, and make the high resolution coverage of the whole world possible. That would not make the current developer's work obsolete. ...
There is no way to make the high resolution coverage without good imagery. With cloud or without it. Also, the cloud services will stop in case of financial problems for Orbx. There is also a need to have a fast and broad Internet and this is not a factor for 90% of our planet.