I don’t think it is a dark age. It is just that there isn’t anything worth to increase on the hardware side; we’ve hit the point of diminishing returns on performance.
Maybe hardware limitations will force developers to actually start optimising their code a bit. Ever increasing power leads to laziness because everyone’s got more than enough CPU/RAM/storage. That feels less of an issue in gaming though, where the majority of my pc library will run on a decade-old laptop but a web page demands enough power to run crysis.
It’ll be the Chromebook model: ship devices with barebones specs with the idea that consumers must subscribe for cloud access for true computational capabilities.
We are about to enter a consumer tech dark age.
I have no idea how companies expect to sell us AI if no one has a device that can access it.
I don’t think it is a dark age. It is just that there isn’t anything worth to increase on the hardware side; we’ve hit the point of diminishing returns on performance.
Maybe hardware limitations will force developers to actually start optimising their code a bit. Ever increasing power leads to laziness because everyone’s got more than enough CPU/RAM/storage. That feels less of an issue in gaming though, where the majority of my pc library will run on a decade-old laptop but a web page demands enough power to run crysis.
It’ll be the Chromebook model: ship devices with barebones specs with the idea that consumers must subscribe for cloud access for true computational capabilities.
Chromebooks are usually plenty powerful to run an independent OS. Just not a bloated one consumers are used to.
They’ll gladly rent out usage of a computer to you for a subscription of expensive tokens like gems in a consumer unfriendly video game.
Add another contradiction onto the pile.
We’ve been in it for a few years now… and it’s not ending anytime soon