[snrplfth]

One of the big problems with people's expectations was, perhaps, a sense that technological progress would involve ever-greater energies, sizes, velocities. This certainly would have made sense in 1967, but what's been done since then has so much to do with using less energy to do more. There's so much to do in computation, biosciences, materials science, and so on - it doesn't look big and impressive necessarily, but it's still major progress.

[mempko]

I think this is definitely something easily forgotten. And it's still a huge problem for both the data center and the computer in your pocket. Makes you wonder if we got off fossil fuels like two decades ago what the progress here would look like here.