On April 28 with the power outage which affected both Europe and Portugal, we carried out the dependence that we developed towards the technologyEspecially among the youngest who grew up with an electronic device under their arms. This dependence, far from reducing, is more and more pronounced and there is no indicative that points in another direction, in particular with the introduction of AI in almost all fields.
And if we faced a panorama in which new processors will no longer be made by exceeding the current physical limits in combination with a continuous but constant degradation of the most advanced chips and stagnation in the storage of the cloud? Could it be the world capable of working? This is the question that was asked a few days ago, the researcher and engineer of Google Lauriewired via her X account, where she also wondered how the world would be without more powerful processors.
The use of the equipment of the past today would be possible with a condition
This would mean the disappearance of the Internet and return to computer equipment in the 80s and 90s. The most interesting answer to this curious question comes from John Carmack one of the co-founders of ID software and creator of Doom with John Romero. Remember that Carmack has created, from scratch, the graphic engine used for this legendary video game in just 28 hours in equipment for more than 30 years, so its opinion has made it all the meaning of the world.
Carmark says that this question was also asked on occasion and is very clear that the world as we know it today could continue to operate with old hardware as long as the software has been optimized.
I also carried out this fun mental experience! A majority of the world of what many imagine could work with obsolete hardware if software optimization was really a priority, and market price signs with a rare calculation would allow it. Rebuild all the microservipicious products interpreted in the native monolithic code bases! The new innovative products would be much rarer without ultrabarata and evolutionary calculation, of course.
I also organized this funny thought experience! More from the world than many could imagine could work on obsolete hardware if software optimization was really a priority, and market price signals on a rare calculation would do it. Rebuild all the interpretation https of microservices https://t.co/lme9of07yq
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This would force programmers to abandon current development models to seek more effective approaches that would draw the best party from older equipment as well as once. Obviously, this would affect the development of innovative products by not being able to use evolutionary calculation And much more affordable economically speaking.
In this way, each new game that would be launched on the market would not have higher requirements than the previous and Microsoft versions would not introduce the limitations of equipment compatible with the new Windows versions to encourage sales of new equipment, therefore, if the case occurred, the same team could last us a lifetime without having to update it.
If we examine how generation performance at generation of processors and graphics, improvements, in the best case, do not exceed 10% to be very optimistic. Perhaps they should rethink more on the optimization of software than the hardware.
