[Shastick]

Beyond the obvious "IT needs will likely still be there", I have two possibly contradicting hunches:

- on one hand, can software in general be a definite "plus" on the question? Should we maybe look for solutions that don't involve too much software, as the footprint of everything software (taken widely and including intensive machine learning, for example) is already pretty big?

- on the other hand: assuming software is required "in large amounts", maybe there is room for heavily optimising all the things involved in building and running software.

With the observations above, if I'm interested in continuing to work with software, working on computational efficiency questions could be interesting and possibly useful.