A secret question hovers over us, a sense of disappointment, a broken promise we were given as children about what our adult world was supposed to be like. I am referring not to the standard false…
In the mid to late 90s, the most powerful supercomputers on the planet were twice the size of your refrigerator and could barely push a teraflop of theoretical peak performance, if they were fully kitted out. Today, I am posting this message from a device that can do nearly twice that, and fits in my pocket.
The phone you get frustrated at for being slow as shit at loading cat pictures for like no reason is as powerful as some of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet two decades ago, and more capable. A PlayStation 5 is literally more powerful than the world's most powerful supercomputer array of 2001.
Just because technology hasn't dramatically changed form in an obvious way doesn't mean it's not advancing, it just means that for most functionality, a keyboard and a mouse have remained the most functional input methods. You don't get to scream at how bad an idea like the multiverse is and in the next breath also demand that technology drastically change its form without at all changing form. And yeah, the multiverse is a bad idea. Keyboard and mouse are fine. That's why they have stuck around for 40+ years.
In the mid to late 90s, the most powerful supercomputers on the planet were twice the size of your refrigerator and could barely push a teraflop of theoretical peak performance, if they were fully kitted out. Today, I am posting this message from a device that can do nearly twice that, and fits in my pocket.
The phone you get frustrated at for being slow as shit at loading cat pictures for like no reason is as powerful as some of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet two decades ago, and more capable. A PlayStation 5 is literally more powerful than the world's most powerful supercomputer array of 2001.
Just because technology hasn't dramatically changed form in an obvious way doesn't mean it's not advancing, it just means that for most functionality, a keyboard and a mouse have remained the most functional input methods. You don't get to scream at how bad an idea like the multiverse is and in the next breath also demand that technology drastically change its form without at all changing form. And yeah, the multiverse is a bad idea. Keyboard and mouse are fine. That's why they have stuck around for 40+ years.