[wkjagt]

When gas prices went up in the 70s because of fuel shortage, smaller (more fuel efficient) cars became more popular to use less fuel to do the same thing. I wonder if the same will happen with compute, by making software more efficient, and do the same thing with less compute.

[zehaeva]

The only thing I really hope for if this continues for an extended period of time is everyone optimizing their programs to use a minimal amount of ram.

[maxerickson]

For the companies doing massive build outs, there's already significant pressure to improve effectiveness and efficiency.

[sdsdssweew213]

I bet everyone will soon use a thin client with 4GB of RAM, and all the compute happens in the cloud of some American corporation you pay subscription fees to.

[Ekaros]

And that will probably fail. I don't think on average companies are capable anymore to deliver software that can operate on only 4GB... Even if everything but presentation layer is cloud based...

[wkjagt]

You're probably right. On my 7th gen i7 with 16 GB, which should theoretically be plenty to check my email, GMail's web interface is very slow.

[OGWhales]

I can see that happening, though that sounds pretty bleak