[fifteen1506]

Not to be a jerk but it's a question of allocation of resources, which is basically what capitalism does. It was used because it existed.

If there is a prolonged economic slowdown (not crash, please!), then resources will be allocated to optimizing CPU cycles and all that hype-based developments will have less resources allocated to them.

It can be for some of us an imperative to fight for efficiency but we shouldn't do it in a way which is in a all or nothing approach. Know its advantages and disadvantages and work within that knowledge-framework.