[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.