> The amount of both matter and labor per quantity of computing power is dropping exponentially. Right?
Right. The problem is the demand is increasing exponentially.
It’s not like when computers got 1000x more powerful we were able to get by with 1/1000x of them. Quite the opposite (or inverse, to be more precise).
Just to go back to my original point, I think drawing a comparison that physical systems compete for physical resources and implying information systems don’t is misleading at best. It’s especially obvious right now with all the competition for compute going on.
Right. The problem is the demand is increasing exponentially.
It’s not like when computers got 1000x more powerful we were able to get by with 1/1000x of them. Quite the opposite (or inverse, to be more precise).
Just to go back to my original point, I think drawing a comparison that physical systems compete for physical resources and implying information systems don’t is misleading at best. It’s especially obvious right now with all the competition for compute going on.