Whether you send the data to the client as a hidden field in a form, or as a cookie it's basically the same thing. And by using a cookie you can be sure that the data will be in every request the user sends (GET's, links, images, media, etc) from then on, not just the results of a form.
While this would reduce the need for server side storage of sessions, this can already be done. There are lots of people who instead of sending a session id in the cookie (or hidden field) will send a serialized version of an object or hash which they can then unserialize at the next request.
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