John Carmack suggests the world could run on older hardware - if we optimized software better

"LaurieWired suggests that 30 years after Z-Day, the world would become a dystopia where computing resembles the 1970s or 1980s. The modern internet would vanish, replaced by sneakernet data exchanges on SSDs and efforts to safeguard valuable desktop hardware from confiscation."

Don't threaten me with a good time! /S

But, seriously, if anyone is going to take software optimization seriously, it's going to have to come from the executive level. As long as relatively cheap hardware improvements can carry software along, it won't be a priority to optimize software. Once that improved hardware becomes more expensive than optimizing the software, the priorities will change.
 
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