[agumonkey]

And the trend is not slowing. That said some people like low fat computing.

Another thing.. computing is over. At least in the previous era form. It's not bringing dreams anymore, will probably turn into an ubiquitous invisible form where intrinsic details such as resource usage won't matter.

[alexisread]

I think you might be a little pessimistic here - IOT has a wealth of fruit to bear, from:

low power always-on devices with long range radio (LoRa), few resources (32k ram), the security constraints of securing every device, dealing with terabytes of log data in the cloud, ML at the edge (Kendryte K210), open-source firmware including radio (DASH7 firmware), open-source hardware (and open-source FPGA tooling) to create custom hardware designs (hardware implementation of algorithms), formal verification of OS and protocols, etc etc.

Even a handful of innovation in any of the above would be groundbreaking.

[agumonkey]

I'm a bit jaded and at the same time not much.

These are all very advanced low level technology subjects (some of which I like a lot btw).

What Wirth said only concerns a few grams of people on earth, the rest will stop using computers just like they stopped using desktops and just stream/talk on smartphones. If you ask most users they'll probably root for whatever electron app they use compared to frugal but powerful programs. For the layman computing will fade and become like roads. And I believe they never really needed nor liked computers, it just was a 20 year period where it was thought to be a technological wonder to have in your home.